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A NEW DEPARTURE 



BY 

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BOSTON 

ARENA PUBLISHING COMPANY 

Copley Square 

1895 

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Copyrighted, 1895, 

BY 

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All Rights Reserved. 



Arena Print. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Introduction 5 

II. Interpretation of Symbols' Used in the New Testament. 19 

III. The Several Phases of Life 41 

IV. The Creation 68 

V. The Birth, Resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus. . 124 

VI. The Flood 167 

VII. Interpretation of the Book of Revelation 205 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 

INTRODUCTION. 

Among the leading points in this theory are the 
following : — 

First: That there is an infinite Wisdom con- 
taining a plan of the Universe, that Wisdom be- 
ing of course the Truth. Discernment of it would 
explain phenomena, and decide questions that 
have vexed wise minds for ages. 

Second : That the Spirit, or Thought, proceed- 
ing from that Wisdom (the mind of Gocl) formed 
the creation, according to the plan. Moreover, 
mental currents from the divine Source can 
awaken spiritual perception in man, and thus 
make known to him the Wisdom of the Lord. 

Third : That Jesus was ordained to receive that 
perception and to declare unto his brethren the 
Truth thus discerned, so that his followers might 
be joint-heirs with him to Spiritual knowledge, 

5 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 

which, together with control over His creation, 
was the divine inheritance promised to the chil- 
dren of God. 

Fourth : That there was one, John the Baptist, 
sent first, l to prepare the way,' by raising people's 
thoughts to a purer state, wherein they could com- 
prehend the Wisdom that had been "hid from 
ages and from generations ". 

Fifth: That John referred to that Wisdom 
when he said, " The kingdom of heaven is at 
hand " — i. e., the Gospel of God was about to be 
declared by Jesus. 

Sixth : That intelligence could not exist in a 
passive mental state. A state of perfection would 
eventually become passive, were there no people 
in lower phases of life to whom angels can min- 
ister. Had Adam been held in his original spirit- 
ual condition, there could have been no material 
multiplication. From this multiplication arise 
people having continually-changing thoughts. To 
minister unto these people, and, after their death, 
to gradually enlighten them concerning the spirit- 
ual Wisdom, is the means by which is kept in 
active circulation the mental force of minds in the 
higher phases of life. For this cause Adam was 
'concluded in unbelief, which obscured his per- 
ception of the truth of the creation, namely, that 
the visible is the manifestation of the invisible, 
and caused him to suppose that the earth and the 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 7 

body have life separate from the Spirit of God. 
This " unbelief " brought, also, selfishness — the 
fountain-head of sin. From these discordant 
thoughts sprang an erroneous understanding. 1 
Moreover, the belief that the creation is separate 
from the Spirit of God gave rise to a conflicting 
element which so battled against and obstructed 
Spiritual force that the creation was no longer 
held unchangeable by it : then began material 
action. 

Jesus said : " Jerusalem [the spiritual Under- 
standing] shall be trodden down of the Gentiles 
[those governed by material thought], until the 
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled " ; in other words, 
the infinite Wisdom shall be obscured b}^ the 
erroneous understanding — except during compara- 
tively short epochs — until the innumerable multi- 
tudes are created which will fulfill the Heavenly 
Father's design. Hence, after the first epoch of 
Light ushered in by Christ, there was to be a 
Night (a veiling of the higher Wisdom), and in 
the fullness of the time a second Day, or reign of 
the spiritual Understanding, when c he will speak 

1 ln these pages the word understanding is often used, as is 
also the word wisdom, to signify some particular sort of knowl- 
edge ; as, (1) the spiritual Understanding, or Wisdom, which 
existed before the life of man ; (2) the original material under- 
standing, which entered with Adam ; and (3) the understand- 
ing of the power of material mind over matter : the latter 
belief arises at intervals. 



8 A NEW DEPA RTURE. 

no more in proverbs, but will show us plainly of 
the Father V 

Seventh : That, in some cases, reference which 
Jesus made to himself was not to his bodily pres- 
ence but to the Truth, or spiritual Wisdom, which 
he perceived. It was with God 4 before the founda- 
tion of the world', and was made manifest by the 
Son — " the only begotten of the Father ". Jesus 
declared that the Spirit of Truth should come again 
into the world, and teach his followers all tilings. 

Eighth: That his promise — viz., "Whatsoever 
ye shall ask the Father in my name [in spiritual 
perception of, and vital faith in, the Truth that 
Jesus made manifest], he will give it you" — was 
in force in that first epoch of Light and will be 
also when the same spiritual Wisdom shall again 
reign in this world. 

Ninth : That the Cross symbolizes the spiritual 
Understanding, which is the opposite of the 
material. The latter, looking downward, deals 
with the effect — the creation, supposing it to have 
life of itself, whereas it is simply the manifesta- 
tion of an invisible cause ; the former, looking up- 
ward, deals with that cause. In the absence of 



1 In these pages, where Scriptural passages are somewhat 
altered they are enclosed hy single quotation marks. When, 
hy interpretation, many words are changed, the said marks are 
sometimes omitted altogether, and the chapter and verse in 
which the original passage occurs are given. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 9 

the spiritual Wisdom its place is occupied by the 
material — a massive temple built by man, in the 
calm conviction that the wall thereof is invulner- 
able. Hence it was the scribes and the lawyers 
who relentlessly persecuted Jesus ; the poor and 
ignorant who left all to follow him. One that 
would be rich in eternal treasures must become 
" poor in spirit", in order to receive the Spirit of 
God. Had Jesus come " in his own name", saying, 
" I am great and mighty, follow me and ye shall 
become likewise," who would not have worshipped 
him! for it is the natural bent of the material 
mind to desire power and glory. But he said, " I 
can of mine own self do nothing." He declared 
that his followers must turn from the wisdom of 
the world, take up the cross (the opposite under- 
standing), and, denying self, become as little chil- 
dren, in order to enter his kingdom. So, many of 
the wise and the mighty cried, " Crucify Him ! " 
that he might not ' take their place and nation 
from them \ All ! but following him they would 
have become ' more than conquerors through him 
that loved them \ Turning from error they would 
have found Truth ; from strife, the peace that 
passeth understanding ; from darkness, the Light 
that is not of earth, but reflects the glory of 
heaven. Since the Day of Christ there has been, 
as it were, a Night, with the light only of stars — ■ 
no wonder that we scorn the idea of there being a 



L A NEW DEPA R T URE. 

sun! But although we may say, "We have all 
the light that ever was or ever shall be," can Ave 
thus prevent the rising of a sun ? Does ignorance 
annihilate truth? Did the earth change its shape 
because, at the time of Columbus, men declared 
that it could not be round ? Unbelief affects only 
the people ; it is powerless to change the plan of 
an omniscient God. 

Tenth : That God is not the author of conflict- 
ing doctrines, but of a wisdom which is unchange- 
able Truth, — " the same yesterday, and to-day, 
and forever,'" — and brings ' brotherhood, union, 
oneness,' among its followers. During the ab- 
sence of that Light, various interpretations of the 
Scriptures were to arise, that the world should not 
be forgetful of the existence of the Infinite. Much 
of the opposition which Jesus encountered arose 
from the people's unwillingness to " purge out the 
old leaven". Having placed a material construc- 
tion upon the symbolic language of Moses, and 
perceiving nothing beyond the meaning thus ob- 
tained, they declared, " We are Moses' disciples." 
But Jesus said unto them, " Had ye believed 
Moses, ye would have believed me ; for he wrote 
of me." But although they said, " We know that 
God spake unto Moses," they added, " As for this 
fellow we know not from whence he is " ! In a 
second spiritual epoch they that are not willing 
to look beyond the material meaning of the New 



A NEW DEPARTURE. II 

Testament may affirm : " We know that Jesus is 
the Son of God, but as for people who advance 
a new doctrine, saying it is the one that Jesus 
taught, we know nothing about them, why do you 
listen to them ? " 

Eleventh : That there is a Spiritual meaning 
undertying the New Testament, hidden, because the 
words appeal only to our material sense, but which 
if spiritually discerned would open " the way into 
the holiest of all", not made manifest while the 
material understanding remains unbroken. For 
an example, take Jesus' declaration that he should 
arise the third day, as also referring to Truth, and 
to a spiritual Day Avhich " is with the Lord as a 
thousand years "- 1 His words thus contain the 
prophecy that the Wisdom which he taught, should 
be revived in the third millenary of the Christian 
era. But the Scriptures record that Jesus arose 
before the dawn of the third day, — for the disciples 
went early to his sepulchre and found him not, — 
signifying that the second reign of the spiritual 
Understanding should begin before the third 
millenary. Again, he told his disciples that he 
must walk " to-day" — referring to that first reign 
of Truth — " to-morrow, and the day following " ; 
and that the third day he should be perfected ; 
signifying both that there should be two future 
epochs of Light, and that in the third millenary 
1 IT Peter iii : 8. 



12 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

(toward its close) should come the end of the 
world, and the universal annihilation of error. 

Twelfth : That the highest degree of Truth is 
referred to as " Christ", or the " Messiah", who, it 
was promised, should come, and establish a reign 
of harmony and power, a foretaste on earth of the 
everlasting kingdom which his followers should 
receive in Heaven. 

Thirteenth : That Jesus was given the highest 
discernment of the infinite Wisdom, and was, 
therefore, the Christ — the Truth, ' made manifest 
in the flesh.' Referring to that Truth Jesus said, 
" No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." 

Fourteenth : That during the Night, or absence 
of that spiritual Light, it is after death that every 
one gradually receives a degree of the Wisdom 
which, together with love for God and for one 
another, overcomes error, and gathers into one fold 
the children of man, bringing, moreover, such joy 
and peace as to more than recompense one for 
having suffered. As purity cannot be forced upon 
any one, but comes only through an inward desire 
for it, remorse is the means by which that desire 
is awakened in the erring. 

Fifteenth: That in the next phase of existence, 
people enter a state of retrospection of their past 
life. Kind thoughts and deeds are remembered 
with pleasure ; selfish and sinful ones with remorse. 
Hence the words: "With what judgment ye 






A NEW DEPARTURE. 13 

judge, ye shall be judged : and with what measure 
ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." 

Sixteenth : That the word " hell " denotes an 
intensified consciousness of their own moral dis- 
cord, in the wicked in the second phase of life. 
The result of this consciousness is remorse and 
pain that are co-existent with the error, and cease 
when the latter is overcome. 

Seventeenth : That the Book of Life symbolizes 
the infinite Wisdom, which is changeless and im- 
mortal. 1 Everything contrary to it is eventually 
destroyed. The Spirit of God supplants the 
material nature, through awakening spiritual dis- 
cernment and love. 

Eighteenth : That in the first retrospect of their 
past life people have not ability to conceal their 
thoughts, but involuntarily give utterance to what 
is in their heart. Therefore ' by their words they 
are justified, and by their words they are con- 
demned '. " Every idle word that men shall speak, 
they shall give an account thereof in the da}^ of 
judgment " ; i. e., in the second phase of life, when 
the power of repression ceases. Every thought 
that ever entered the mind is then wafted across 
the brain, causing memory of the past. Moreover, 
in that phase of life people have a keener con- 

1 The Scripture says of those who were given perception of 
the Wisdom, that ' their names were written in the Book of 
Life \ 



14 £ NEW BEPAR TUBE. 

sciousness of their error, in order that they shall 
desire to overcome it. Paradise would be no 
better than this world if each one's selfishness en- 
tered therein ; and if the material nature were 
overpowered at death, one's individuality and 
memory of the past would be destroyed. It is the 
third phase of life wherein dwelleth only right- 
eousness. The second is a preparatory state, 
where people gradually reach the frame of mind 
in which they can comprehend and appreciate a 
degree of ' the Truth that is their life '. 

Nineteenth : That Abraham, Moses, David, and 
the other prophets, had certain degrees of the 
spiritual Wisdom ; but Jesus was the first one to 
whom was given complete, and the highest, dis- 
cernment of it. 

Twentieth : That Truth was the ' Root ' whence 
sprang David's spiritual understanding. Before 
the birth of Jesus it was promised that lie should 
be given the [spiritual] ' throne ' of David. 1 
After the reign of the latter prophet spiritual dis- 
cernment ceased, — * the tabernacle of David fell.' 
His son Solomon 'built a temple wherein the 
Most High dwelt not'. 2 In Acts xv: 16, IT, are 
the following verses : " After this I will return, 
and will build again the tabernacle of David, which 
is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins 

1 Luke i: 32. Refer also to Rev. xxii: 16. 

2 Acts vii : 47-50. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 15 

thereof, and I will set it up : That the residue of 
men might seek after the Lord," — those words 
referring to the time of Jesus ; also to the second 
and to the third coming of the spiritual Wisdom. 

As already said, the Spirit proceeding from 
God formed the creation, which is the manifesta- 
tion of Divine thought. To control Creative force 
would control the manifestation of that force. 
The Heavenly Father gave unto Jesus, both dis- 
cernment of the infinite Wisdom and control of 
the force proceeding therefrom. Hence, ' all things 
were put in subjection under him,' although ' he 
himself was subject unto God ' ; for he sought not 
his own will, but solely to declare the Creator's 
love, wisdom and power, — doing ever what is 
pleasing in His sight. 

Twenty-first : That the life of the body is the 
Spirit of God which unceasingly passes to it, but 
is battled against and somewhat obstructed by a 
conflicting element continuously generated by an 
inherent state in our mental organization in this 
life. By means of Jesus' discernment of the 
Infinite wisdom and power, an unobstructed way 
was opened, through which the Spiritual force 
could pass unalloyed. If through faith a person's 
mind were brought within that purified space, his 
body was restored at once. This unobstructed 
Spirit, to which ' nothing is impossible', was held 
to earth by Jesus' perception of it. When there 



16 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

was no longer spiritual discernment the connecting 
link was broken, and the force arose high above 
the reach of man. 

Twenty-second : That all harmonious growth is 
caused by the Spirit of God which unceasingly 
passes to His creation, but is so obstructed that it 
can work but slowly, though always tending to 
restore, and to complete the perfect design in 
every object. The elements receive from this 
Spirit an irresistible force, before which man re- 
treats, awed and helpless, but which through union 
with God, he could control. The disciples said of 
Jesus, " What manner of man is this, that even 
the winds and the sea obe} T him ! " Can it be that 
we comprehend the omnipotence of the Lord, 
when even one that believes in God and admits 
unhesitatingly that He is all-powerful, will, when 
confronted with a truth that is above material 
limits, exclaim, " Impossible " / But is the creation 
greater than He who caused it to be, that it should 
not, in His presence, obey Him ? While the veil 
is between the Potter and his clay, the servant 
1 Nature ' is given supreme command — withdrawn, 
and lo ! the limited law gives place to the limit- 
less Lawgiver. The creation had been in subjec- 
tion to the servant for ages : could it, then, resist 
the Master? Through the power of the Infinite, 
Jesus triumphed over laws of nature, even healing 
the maimed and raising 1 the dead. 






A NE W DEPA RTUEE. 17 

Twenty-third : That toward the end of the first 
epoch of Light, mental force, sent earthward to 
the followers of Jesus, entered also the minds 
of people who were not awakened spiritually. 
Their will-power was thus increased to an extent 
that enabled them to do such works ' as would 
have deceived the very elect, had that been possi- 
ble '. Such people are referred to by St.. Paul as 
" having a form of godliness, but denying the 
power thereof ". St. Peter and St. Paul forewarned 
their brethren of the perilous times of the latter 
days [of the epoch], when ' the way of truth 
should be evil spoken of ' ; St. John, at the time 
of writing his Epistles, said : " Even now are there 
many antichrists ; whereby we know that it is the 
last time." This error finally caused such a cloud 
in the mental atmosphere that the spiritual Wisdom 
was obscured. 

Twenty-fourth : That in Revelation (xvi : 19) 
the figurative language, namely, " The great city 
was divided into three parts," symbolizes the three 
understandings. The first does not recognize mind 
as governing matter; the second deals with the 
power of material mind over matter — thereby in a 
measure controlling it, thus giving people "where- 
of to glory, but not before God " — ; the third is 
the gift of the Lord, even discernment of the infi- 
nite Wisdom and of the power of the Spirit of God 
to restore His creation. The first understandim-' 

2 



18 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

entered with Adam, and has always governed the 
majority. The second arises at intervals ; the 
third exists in an epoch of Light. Moreover, the 
second is the germ whence springs ' the spirit of 
antichrist ' — the violent opposition to Truth: that 
opposition prevailed in the latter days of the first 
epoch. Jesus referred both to those governed by 
the first understanding and by the second, when 
he said: "If I had not come and spoken unto 
them," * * * and " done among them the works 
which none other man did, they had not had sin" ; 
for they would not have been conscious of a higher 
Wisdom. But when that Wisdom was made 
known 4 they had no cloak for their sin if, after 
having seen, they hated both Him and his Father '. 
During an epoch of Light they that take up the 
cross — the opposite understanding from the material 
— are 'baptized with the Holy Ghost [spiritual 
perception], and with fire ', the Truth that destroys 
error and brings at-one-ment with the Infinite. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 19 



CHAPTER II. 

INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLS USED IN THE NEW 
TESTAMENT. 

According to this doctrine the New Testament 
is clothed in symbolic language, so that the inner 
meaning should not be discerned except during a 
spiritual epoch. In two instances, following, the 
symbols used have more than one signification. 
The word ' Egypt' denotes, in some cases, this 
world — the land governed by Pharoah (the mate- 
rial understanding) — : in other cases it denotes a 
sinful state ; Moses was sent to deliver the children 
of Israel therefrom. Again : the third millenary 
is called the third Day — before the dawn of which 
Truth "should arise — ; and the three epochs of spir- 
itual Light are also called days. The second Day, 
or epoch of Light, begins before, and extends into, 
the third Day, or millenary. 

The following interpretation of symbols used 
in the New Testament may throw light upon the 
Spiritual meaning therein. (Some of the symbols 
when referring not to the Spiritual, denote the 
opposite quality ; as, the flesh of Jesus — spiritual 



20 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

perception ; other reference to flesh — material per- 
ception. 1 ) The flesh and body of Jesus ; also 
bread, faith, and the Holy Ghost, symbolize spirit- 
ual perception. The word ' church ' is used as a 
symbol for spiritual perception, and also to desig- 
nate certain groups of people that are given discern- 
ment of Truth. The blood of Jesus ; also wine, 2 
meat, salt, and name, — Truth, the spiritual Wis- 
dom. Usually, other reference to 'blood' signi- 
fies material thought. 3 In some cases the word 
4 fire ' denotes Truth. Water, also » white ' 
(purity). The word 'red' denotes error. Oil 
(love). Cross (the opposite understanding from 
the material). The wrath to come, — a person's 
remorse, in the next phase of life, for sin, from 

1 In the latter part of the nineteenth chapter of Revelation 
(and also in Acts ii : 31) the word flesh has only the ordinary 
meaning ; in passages quoted respectively on pages 80 and 113, 
the word has both the ordinary and the inner signification. 
The two meanings apply also to the word ' body ' occurring in 
a passage from IT. Cor. v. : 10, quoted on page 65. Of course, 
words used as symbols may occur in mere description of events, 
and may then have only the ordinary meaning ; as in the pas- 
sage [see Matthew xxvii : 58, 59] where a request is made by 
Joseph of Arimathea that to him should be delivered the 
crucified body of Jesus. 

2 In Titus i : 7, the word ' wine ' has the ordinary meaning 
and refers also to material thought. 

3 Where the word 'blood' has other than the ordinary mean- 
ing and does not refer to Truth, it signifies in some cases, 
simply material thought in distinction from the spiritual ; and 
in other cases, that which is sinful. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



21 



which one is eventually freed by Jesus Christ — 
spiritual perception of that infinite Truth which 
Jesus made manifest, and which brings " remission" 
(purifies the mind). Even as the Scripture says : 
" This is the covenant that I will make with them 
after those days [in which they live in materiality], 
saith the Lord, I Avill put my laws into their hearts, 
and in their minds will I write them ; And [then] 
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." 
Hebrews x : 16, 17. Remorse is sometimes called 
"the wrath of God", because it is the existence of 
holiness which causes one's consciousness of wrong- 
doing. 

In some cases the word ' fear ' denotes love ; as, 
to fear the name of God (to love His truth). 1 To 
break — to explain ; as, Jesus broke bread (he ex- 
plained the Wisdom, of which he had been given 
spiritual perception). To believe in the name of 
the Son of God (to comprehend and receive the 
Truth — that is, the infinite Wisdom — brought to 
light by Jesus). 2 " Through the blood of his cross 
to reconcile all things unto himself " (through the 



1 Where the word ' fear ' is used as in I. John iv : 18, and 
in Luke viii : 50, it has of course only the ordinary meaning. 

2 In the fuller meaning of the word 'believe', it signifies 
not only to comprehend, receive and love, the infinite Wisdom, 
but also that one's faith should be manifested by spiritual 
works. This broader signification is included where reference 
is made, in these pages, to purification through ' receiving ' 
Truth, or through 'discernment and love' thereof. 



22 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

truth of his opposite Understanding to supplant all 
thoughts that are contrary to it). ' The blood of 
Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin ' ; i. e., the 
spiritual truth, the vital principle of the higher life, 
the animating and soul-restoring force, when it 
flows into and illuminates the mind, purifies the 
entire nature. " Christ crucified " (Truth over- 
powered by error — the infinite Wisdom over- 
powered by the finite — for a time, then revived 
by the power of God). The Lamb slain from the 
foundation of the world (the Wisdom of God, over- 
powered by the material understanding). Atone- 
ment, — at-one-ment ; i. e., union with God through 
knowledge and love of Him, — one's material nat- 
ure given up, supplanted hy the spiritual. The 
Spirit and the bride (Truth, and the perception 
and love of Truth). Called unto the marriage 
supper of the Lamb (the spiritual nature awakened 
to partake of the Wisdom and love that unite one 
with the Lord). Saved (purified from material 
thought through knowledge and love of that which 
is Spiritual). Salvation (enlightenment and 
complete purification, — at-one-ment with God). 
Baptize all nations " in the name of the Father, and 
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost " (teach them 
the truth of the infinite Love and Wisdom, and of 
spiritual perception awakened by the power of the 
Infinite). ' Believe, and ye shall be saved ' ; i. e., 
comprehend, and receive in the spirit of holiness 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 23 

the Truth that Jesus made manifest, and ye shall 
be purified from the material nature. 1 Tabernacle, 
temple, house, and city ; also garment, raiment, and 
robe, denote understanding. 2 Hands, hand, and 
arm ; also eye (thought). " The Most High dwell- 
eth not in temples made with hands," — -the infinite 
Wisdom dwells not in understandings formed by 
material thought. The immortal Truth existed 
before the life of man, so what understanding can 
man build, wherein that Wisdom can abide ? 
People must be willing to let ' their own houses 
fall', if they would enter that temple built by the 
Heavenly Father, and finished before the foun- 
dation of the world. 4 They cannot enter through 
unbelief ' ; that is, while they neither comprehend 
nor desire Spiritual knowledge. Referring to the 
time during which the infinite Wisdom was mani- 
fest Jesus said : " Blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men, * * * neither 
in this world, neither in the world to come " ; in 

1 In the New Testament the word ' believe ' is sometimes 
used where it has only the ordinary meaning. It is so used in 
the latter half of the nineteenth verse in the second chapter of 
James; and also in Romans xiii: 11, where St. Paul says, re- 
ferring to the first reign of Truth, that salvation (enlighten- 
ment and complete purification) was then nearer than it had 
been when the people merely " believed", without being awak- 
ened spiritually. 

2 In II Peter i : 13, 14, the word " tabernacle " refers to the 
body. 



2A A NEW DEPARTURE. 

other words, while people, in either this phas 
life or the second, continued to denounce and : 
spiritual perception, they could not be purified from 
the material nature. I -ins could be overcome 

through discernment and love of Truth : but while 
they would not receive the gift, their error remained. 
Finally, in the second phase of life, remorse having 
caused th lesire purity, spiritual Lighr 

all. Tl I their robes, and 

made them white in the blood of the Lamb, 91 — 
cleansed their understanding, and made it pm 
the Truth of the infinite Wisdom. 

The " Jerusalem which now is. and is in bond- 

— ith her children ; also Hagar, Pharaoh, and 

the material understanding. The 

isalem above, which is free, and the inoth 

us all : ah S h, the mother of I 

spiritual Understanding. Ishmael (material per- 

ception i. Isaac (spiritual perception). " What 

saith the Scripture? C t-t out the bondwoman 

and her son ; for the son of the bondwoman shall 

not be heir with the son of the free woman " : l i.e.. 

material understanding and ti D thereof 

i ritual, awakened by the 
power of G I. Esau was governed by material 
thought; Jac h, by spiritual, which was hid 
from many of hi ts — the children of 

1 Galatians iv: 22-3L 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 25 

Israel. Hence the Scripture saith : " They are 
not all Israel [spiritual], which are of Israel: 
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, 
are they all children : but, in Isaac [in spiritual 
perception] shall thy seed be called." l Account- 
ing that God is able to awaken spiritual perception 
even in the dead, 2 and even in those whose spiritual 
nature is sleeping. The term ' Gentiles ' signifies 
people that are governed by the original material 
understanding; 'Jews', descendants of them to 
whom the promises were made ; i. e., to whom was 
given a degree of the spiritual Wisdom. But 
' a vail being upon the hearts ' of the disciples 
of Moses, they supposed righteousness to be com- 
pleted by obeying the material law ; consequently 
they failed, in this world, to attain that which 
comes only through discernment of Truth. 
The law of Moses is spiritual, but materiality 
places a material construction upon it. For in- 
stance : one of the Commandments says, " Thou 
shalt not kill." Although we may be blameless 
" touching the righteousness which is in the [ma- 
terial construction of the] law," yet, materiality de- 
stroys spiritual thought. " Therefore by the deeds 
of the [said] law there shall no flesh be justified in 
his sight." 3 So we seek for the righteousness that 
comes through Jesus Christ, — through spiritual 

1 Romans ix : 6, 7. 2 Hebrews xi : 19. 

3 Romans iii : 20. 



26 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

perception of the Truth that Jesus made man- 
ifest. Against that Understanding there is no law ; 
for it overcomes the material nature and brings 
at-one-ment with God. Practicing the virtues 
enjoined by the material law, and overcoming the 
sins forbidden by it, enables people to become suf- 
ficiently pure to be awakened spiritually. " Where- 
fore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto 
Christ [Truth], that we might be justified by 
faith " [spiritual perception]. Before this per- 
ception comes Ave are kept under the material law; 1 
not until faith is given, are Ave 4 no longer under 
that law [of self-righteousness], but under grace'. 2 
Hence St. Paul writes : " I through [obeying] the 
[material] law am dead to the laAV, that I might 
liA r e unto God," 3 — Truth being the end of that 
law for righteousness 4 to eA r ery one that is 
awakened spiritually; as it (the said law) then 
gives place to a higher and holier conception of 
purity and justice. The Gentiles, although hav- 
ing not the outward form of the material 
law, showed " the work of the law written 
in their hearts, their conscience also bearing 



1 Galatians iii : 23, 24. 2 Romans vi : 14. 

3 Galatians ii: 19. 

4 Romans x : 2-4. The material law was not made for a right- 
eous man, as lie would not commit the sins forbidden by it ; 
it was made "for the lawless and disobedient", to reprove 
everything that is not virtuous. I Timothy i: 9. 



A NE W BE PA R T T JRE. 2 7 

witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile ac- 
cusing or else excusing one another ". Romans 
ii : 15. 

'Sin was in the world before the law", but it 
" is not imputed where there is no law". 1 So the 
law entered, in order that sin should, by the Com- 
mandment, appear a exceeding sinful ", to show 
people that it is wrong and also to give them 
knowledge of right, that they may " cease to do 
evil, and learn to do well ". Hence the law " was 
added because of transgressions, till the seed 
should come to whom the promise was made ; and 
it was ordained by angels in the hands of a medi- 
ator" 2 [Moses]. 

Being received by the people through their 
material perception caused a material construction 
to be placed upon it — a vail, which of course would 
be " done away " by discernment of its Spiritual 
signification. 3 When in the fullness of the time, 
Truth was to be made known, God sent forth his 
Son — " the mediator of the new testament " — to 
declare it. Awakening spiritual perception in the 
followers of Jesus, He enabled them to understand 
the immortal Wisdom, thus abolishing the tem- 

1 Romans v: 13. 2 Galatians i ii r 19. 

3 In the words of St. Paul : "Their minds were blinded: 
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the 
reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in 
Christ." Refer to II Cor. iii: 7-16. 



28 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

porary covenant, the material law, which He had 
established by Moses. " For there is verily a dis- 
annulling of the commandment going before for 
the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For 
the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in 
of a better hope did ; by the which [the infinite 
Wisdom] we draw nigh unto God." Hebrews 
vii : 18, 19. Thus through Christ, the righteous- 
ness of God without that law was manifested, 
being witnessed by the Spiritual law and the 
prophets, — they having testified of the One that 
was to come. 1 Even the righteousness that comes 
through discernment of the Truth made manifest 
by Jesus, and is unto all and upon all that receive 
the Wisdom. 2 Romans iii : 21, 22. 

The infinite Wisdom could not have been de- 

1 Moses himself said: "A prophet shall the Lord jour God 
raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall 
ye hear in all things "whatsoever he shall say unto you." 
Acts iii: 22. 

2 Reference, in these pages, to spiritual perception of the 
Understanding that Jesus made manifest [1 John v: 2 0,] al- 
ways includes the deepest faith and trust in, and reverence for, 
him — the individual, Jesus, the Son of God, and the Saviour — 
which is, literally, the ' Purifier' — of the world. People are 
purified materially through obeying the law of Moses ; 
' through Jesus Christ ' they are purified from material thought 
and are 'made wise unto salvation'. The spiritual Light that 
illuminates and regenerates, when people are given perception 
and love of it, comes from the Heavenly Father through our 
Lord Jesus Christ: it shone in the darkness, but "the dark- 
ness comprehended it not". John i: 5. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 29 

clared to the world, neither could the power of the 
Spirit of God have been demonstrated, 1 except by 
some one who was in the world ; that is, by a 
mediator : consequently a mediator is not " of 
one", 2 but must partake of both, Spiritual and 
material. Jesus received of the material from his 
mother ; of the Spiritual, from God, and thus 
became a mediator, or minister, from God to man. 
Through his discernment of the higher Wisdom 
he was finally enabled to overcome the material 
nature which he had inherited from Mary. In 
the words of Scripture, ' He broke down the middle 
wall of partition.' " As many as received him, to 
them gave he power to become the sons of God, even 
to them that believed on his name " ; 3 i. e., they that 
received the Truth, or Wisdom, that he made mani- 
fest were purified, and united by it with God, even 
as he was, thus becoming joint-heirs with him to 
the Divine inheritance. " For both he that sanc- 
tifieth [with the Truth] and they who are sanc- 
tified [by that Truth] are all of one : for which 

1 In order that people may know and behold the power of 
the Lord, there must be that upon which it can manifest itself. 
Hence "the scripture saith unto Pharaoh [the material under- 
standing], even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, 
that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might 
be declared throughout all the earth ". Romans ix : 17. 

2 In the twentieth verse of the third chapter of Galatians the 
words in italics should be omitted. 

3 John i : 1? 



30 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." 
Hebrews ii: 11. Partaking of the material nature 
was the only means by which Jesus, through the 
power of the Infinite, could overcome that nature. 
He bore the erroneous understanding — the " con- 
tradiction of sinners against himself " — , so that the 
spiritual Wisdom might be made manifest to the 
world, and having finally overcome material 
thought, in his own mind, should have power to 
destroy it in the minds of others also. 

The material construction placed upon the law 
of Moses and upon the writings of the other early 
Prophets ' remained until the time of John the 
Baptist : then the Wisdom of God was taught', by 
Jesus. " And it is easier for heaven and earth to 
pass, than one tittle of the [Spiritual] law to fail." 
Luke xvi : 16, 17. Even as Jesus said : " Think 
not that I am come to destroy the [Spiritual] law, 
or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to 
fulfill [to bring to light the highest signification 
thereof]. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven 
and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no 
wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." 
Whosoever breaks one of the least of the Spiritual 
commandments, and teaches men so, has the least 
discernment of the infinite Wisdom : whosoever 
keeps those commandments and teaches them, 
lias the greatest. Moreover, " Except your right- 
eousness shall exceed the righteousness of the 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 31 

Scribes and Pharisees [exceed that which merely 
fulfills the material law], ye shall in no case enter 
into the kingdom of heaven " 2 [ become at-one with 
God]. 

The Spiritual law is immortal, but the material 
construction of it, the vail, is to be " done away " 
by Truth. The Scriptures seem contradictory 
because the same term is used to denote opposites, 
the material and the Spiritual. An instance of this 
seeming contradiction, is where St. Paul declares 
that salvation is not of works, and in another 
Epistle, entreats his followers to work out their 
own salvation : — union with God is not completed 
by material works ; for no one, however noble he 
may be, can awaken spiritual perception in him- 
self. ' It is not of himself, lest he should boast ; 
but it is the gift of God.' 2 When that percep- 
tion is awakened, the mind in its every-day life 
must be responsive to the promptings of the 
higher Truth and Love ; for it is through spiritual 
works that one's faith is made perfect. 3 

The sacrifices (shedding the blood of lower 
life) commanded by Moses 4 symbolize the giving 
up of lower, selfish thoughts, thereby purifying 
one's perception for the time being. But those 
sacrifices " could not make him that did the serv- 



1 Matthew v : 17, 20. 2 Ephesians ii : 8, 9. 

3 James ii : 14, 17. 4 Kefer to Hebrews, chapter ix. 



32 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

ice perfect" ; for the material understanding — 
the source of error — still remained, and selfish 
desires continually emanated therefrom. Hence, 
God desired 4 better sacrifices than those ' ; i. e., 
by the power of that Truth given to Jesus, and 
through him, to his followers, they were finally 
enabled to give up their material nature. They 
were thus " perfected forever ", ' through a 
greater and more perfect understanding formed 
not by material thought, that is to say, not of our 
building : i neither by the " sprinkling " of Truth 
received through Moses, nor by merely giving up 
selfish desires, but also by comprehending, loving 
and promulgating the infinite Wisdom of Christ 
they entered into the holy place, having obtained 
eternal redemption.' For this cause Jesus was 
the mediator of the New Testament, that by over- 
coming the material, for the redemption of those 
transgressions that are under the temporary law — 
which is powerless to prevent the error that it 
does not recognize — ,they that are awakened spirit- 
ually may receive the promise of union with the 
Infinite. 2 So many as receive spiritual perception 
of the higher Wisdom are thereby baptized unto 
the death of materiality (Romans vi : 3). He 
whose material nature is dead, is freed from sin 

1 ' When our natural understanding is overcome, we have one 
formed not by material thought, but eternal in the heavens. 1 
II Cor. v : 1. 2 Hebrews ix : 15. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 33 

and from sinful desires. (Romans vi : 6, T. Refer 
also to 1 John iii: 9, and v: 18.) 

When it is testified that Truth will overcome 
error the latter must cease, or the testimony is of 
no force. Jesus declared that there is a resurrec- 
tion of the dead ; his words were of force after he 
had died and arisen. Moses was not ordained to 
make manifest the Wisdom that would overcome 
the people's material understanding. J He used 
symbolic language, through which only the lesser 
degree of Truth was ' sprinkled ' that would help 
people to lead virtuous lives, that being 4 the trutli 
of the testament which God had enjoined unto 
them '. Without the giving up of sinful thoughts 
— " shedding of blood" — there is no remission. 2 
Jesus made manifest a Truth whereof they that 
continued to serve the material understanding had 
no right to partake. If they would give up self- 
ish desires, the manifestation thereof (the works), 
so-called ' the bodies of the beasts ' should also 
cease. Hebrews xiii : 10, 11. 

1 As the Scripture expresses it, ' Moses put a vail over his 
face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to 
the end of that which is abolished.' II Cor. iii : 13. 

2 Heb. ix : 16-23. In that chapter, both a lesser degree of 
Truth just spoken of as purifying people materially, and also 
sinful thoughts, are symbolized by the word ' blood'. In the 
one case, reference is made to a sprinkling, and in the other 
case to a shedding, thereof. The former was a gift; the latter, 
a "sacrifice". 

3 



34 A NE W BEPA R TUBE. 

In connection with the following, refer to I Cor. 
vi : 13 : Material thoughts for the material under- 
standing, and vice versa : but the infinite Wisdom 
shall eventually destroy them both. Perception is 
not for the erroneous understanding, but for the 
Truth, even as Truth is for the perception. They 
whose God was their material wisdom rendered 
homage to their own beliefs and were enemies of 
the opposite understanding of Christ. The end of 
the error which had blinded them was destruction 
(Phil, iii : 18, 19). Reference to 'destruction', 
after the law entered, signifies the final annihila- 
tion not of existence but of sin. 

The Spiritual law was brought to light by the 
Messiah who saith, " I come (in the volume of the 
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had 
no pleasure, * * * but a body [in this case signify- 
ing a material perception] hast thou prepared me." 
Through Spiritual knowledge Jesus was enabled 
to give up his material perception. The symbolic 
language is, that he offered his body, i by the 
which sacrifice he perfected forever those who 
were sanctified ' ; 1 i. e., who received Truth ; for 
that power having once overcome, in Jesus, every- 
thing contrary to it, could produce the same re- 

1 Fleb. x : 5-14 Jesus' sacrifice of his material nature was 
crowned and made complete by the supreme sacrifice of his 
1 fe. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 35 

suit in all that embraced it, — changing their vile 
perception that it might be fashioned like unto 
his glorious one, " according to the working [of 
Spiritual thought] whereby he is able even to sub- 
due all things unto himself." Phil, iii : 21. Thus 
Jesus ' took away the first [the sacrifices according 
to the material construction of the law], in order 
to establish the second,' — that spiritual Wisdom 
which overcomes the material nature and brings 
at-one-ment with God. When spiritual discern- 
ment ceased, there again arose material interpreta- 
tions of Scripture, that were to remain until the 
second 4 Day': for when the Lord shutteth, no 
man openeth ; even as when he openeth, no man 
shutteth. Rev. iii : 7. In the material construc- 
tion of the law of Moses, the outward ceremonies, 
"ordained according to the heavenly pattern," 
were to last only for a time. 1 The Jews com- 
plained that the doctrine of Christ changed the 
customs which Moses had delivered unto them ; 
and Jesus said, " In vain do they worship me, teach- 
ing for doctrines the commandments of men." 2 
Spiritual perception (faith) does not make void 
either the Spiritual law or the virtue enjoined by 
any law : on the contrary, it establishes both. 3 It 

1 Refer to the heading of the 7th chapter of Acts. See also 
Hebrews, chapter viii. 

2 Refer to Mark, first part of chapter vii. 

3 Romans iii : 31. 



36 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

is only the ' shadows ', the " figures of the true 'V 
that are abolished by the infinite Wisdom which 
brings the inward holiness of heart making a new 
creature, "born again, not of corruptible seed, 
but of incorruptible." 

In connection with the following, refer to 
Romans vii : 1-6, and 12 : If our material nature 
were overcome, we should be no longer held Iry 
the law which governs it ; but should become dead 
to that law through spiritual perception of Truth 
(" body of Christ "), that we might serve in the 
newness of the Spiritual, and not in the oldness of 
the material. As sin is wrong, that which shows 
it to be wrong is righteousness. " Wherefore the 
law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, 
and good ", bringing knowledge (in order to es- 
tablish virtue,) that sin is contrary to God. What 
the law of Moses could not do, in that it became 
weak because of the material perception through 
which it was received, God sent forth his own 
Son partaking of that perception, that he (Jesus) 
might overcome it — through discernment of the 
higher Wisdom — and might declare the righteous- 
ness of the Spiritual law, that the latter should be 
fulfilled in those that walk not after the material, 
but after the Spiritual. If Truth be in us, the 
material perception is dead because of sin ; but the 

1 Hebrews ix : 24; and x : 1, 2. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 37 

spiritual, is alive because of righteousness. Refer 
to Romans viii : 3-10. St. Paul marvelled that the 
Galatians, after being awakened spiritually, should 
turn back to the ' weak and beggarly elements, 
whereunto they desired to be again in bondage'. 
If they wished to be justified by outward cere- 
monies it proved that they had fallen from discern- 
ment of Truth, for they would not have returned 
to shadows while possessing substance. 

Assenting to the following words, " The letter 
killeth, but the spirit giveth life," why do we cling 
so persistently to the letter, and scorn the idea of 
there being a hidden meaning therein ! For an 
example of spiritual signification hidden to mate- 
rial perception, take the latter part of the eleventh 
chapter of I Corinthians. 1 Recognizing nothing 
beyond the letter, how meaningless is the sentence, 
" This cup is the new testament in my blood," 
addressed by Jesus to his disciples when giving 
them the final explanation, called in symbolic 
language, the Last Supper, which should sustain 
their discernment of the Wisdom that he was sent 
to declare. In the light of a higher meaning how 
differently it reads! — "This mental food is a 
clearer explanation of the immortal Truth." So 
often as his followers partook of it they showed 
forth the death of materiality in themselves, until 

1 See also Matthew xxvi: 26-28. 



38 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the}^ were purified like unto him. While suppos- 
ing that the words which signify Truth and spirit- 
ual perception refer merely to wine and bread (or 
to the blood and body of Jesus), we 4 hear, but 
comprehend not ', and c although honoring the Lord 
with our lips', our spiritual insight is far from 
him. 1 With the spiritual insight man receives 
the higher Wisdom unto righteousness, and by the 
promulgation of that Wisdom confession is made 
unto eventual, complete purification. See Romans 
x: 10. 

In connection with the following, refer to 
Romans, chapter xi. Although to the Jews had 
been " committed the oracles of God ", 2 the Wisdom 
clothed in symbolic language was received by the 
disciples of Moses through their material percep- 
tion, and was therefore materially construed. 
Hence the Jews sought salvation as if it were 
completed by the works of their law, and so those 
that were not of the " remnant " then awakened 
spiritually, opposed the teachings of Christ. 3 A 
number of the Gentiles were given discernment of 
Truth, thus attaining spiritual righteousness with- 

1 During a Night, or absence of the higher Light, the cere- 
mony of the Lord's Supper is decreed to prevail as a means of 
keeping in active remembrance the divine life of Jesus, and 
thus of raising and inspiring one's thoughts. 

2 Romans iii: 2, 3. 

8 Refer to Romans ix: 27, 31-33 ; and, relative to Gentiles 
awakened spiritually, verses 24-26. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 39 

out the law of material ceremonies. So arranged 
in order to 4 provoke the Jews to jealousy ', in other 
words, to convince them that salvation is not com- 
pleted by fulfilling the material law ; * for 4 the 
Scripture [in condemning materiality] hath con- 
cluded all under sin, that the promise through 
spiritual perception of the Truth declared by 
Jesus might be given to those who receive that 
Wisdom '. 2 Discernment of the Spiritual can be 
awakened only by the Spirit of God : therefore 
salvation is "by grace". Perceiving that the 
Jews did not receive " the promise " through the 
material law, caused the Gentiles to realize that 
it might be attained by trust in the Infinite : they 
were then in a state of mind to be awakened 
spiritually. Thus the Gentiles obtained mercy 
through the unbelief of the Jews. In the next 
phase of life the former were ministers to the 
latter, enlightening them concerning the spiritual 
Wisdom. Hence the Jews received the gift of God 
through the mercy of the Gentiles ; for although 
4 concerning the Gospel they were enemies, touch- 
ing the election they were beloved '. ' They had 
not stumbled that they should fall, but that through 
their fall, salvation should come to the Gentiles ' ; 

1 The work of the law that the Gentiles showed " written in 
their hearts" was a path leading to salvation, in that it caused 
them to become sufficiently pure to be awakened spiritually. 

2 Galatians iii : 22. 



40 A NE W DEPA fi T URE. 

later, it came also to themselves. People in the 
second phase of life who have there suffered much 
from remorse, have when purified an intense 
desire to help " them that are out of the way ". 
Giving the whole heart and mind to the labor of 
destroying error, thev reach a degree of intelli- 
gence, appreciation and joy, which cannot be 
attained without consecrated mental activity, and 
which, when attained, is an unspeakable recompense 
for having suffered. True charity — which is to 
unselfishly love and bless — is co-existent with puri- 
fied spiritual intelligence. The former increases 
with the increase of the latter. The wisdom 
' profiteth nothing ' unless it " worketh by love " ; 
and the existence of sin and suffering affords to 
the purified a motive, stimulating them to that 
mental labor which alone brings, and sustains, the 
highest development of their spiritual nature. In 
this world L God concluded all people in unbelief, 
that he misrht eventually shower his indescribable 
mercy upon all '. Romans xi : 32. 

Jesus said : " When * * * the Spirit of truth is 
come, he will guide you into all truth.* * * He 
shall glorify me : for he shall receive of mine, and 
shall shew it unto you." l In that day, M the true 
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and 
in truth ; for the Father seeketh such to worship 
him." John iv: 23. 

1 John xv i: 13, 14. 



A NEW BE PA RTUEE. 41 



CHAPTER III. 

THE SEVERAL PHASES OF LIFE. 

Sundry names in the New Testament besides 
referring to individuals, also symbolize either a 
mental state or one of the several phases of life. 
The name 4 Elias ' symbolizes the mental state 
from which Adam fell, — a spiritual state, but not 
including perception of the higher degrees of Wis- 
dom : in the words of Scripture, Adam was but 
" the figure of him that was to come ". : The 
disciples asked Jesus why the scribes said that 
Elias must come first. " Jesus answered and said 
unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore 
all things " ; i. e., only a state of purity can open 
the way to Truth. Hence John came baptizing 
with water [which denotes purity], and he said, 
' There cometh one who shall baptize with the 
Holy Ghost ' [discernment of the infinite Wisdom] . 
Jesus declared : " Elias is come already, and they 
knew him not, but have done unto him whatso- 
ever they listed. * * * Then the disciples under- 
stood that he spake unto them of John the Bap- 
1 Romans v: 14. 



42 A NE I V I) EPA RTURE. 

tist," 1 who came, the Scripture saitli, " in the 
spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the 
fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the 
wisdom of the just ; to make ready a people pre- 
pared for the Lord." Luke i : 17. 

According to this doctrine 2 there are seven 
phases (often called strata) of creation. Ascend- 
ing from the lowest to the highest, the lowest 
is always called the first ; and the highest, the 
seventh : in the order of their production the num- 
bers would be reversed. These phases of creation 
are referred to in the New Testament 3 in symbolic 



1 Matthew xvii : 12, 13. 

2 To avoid constant repetition, the phrase 'according to this 
doctrine ' or this new ' understanding ' is usually omitted. 
The reader is desired to consider it prefixed to each statement 
made in these pages, — the writer's attitude of mind being not 
that of preferring to make assertions that are contrary to estab- 
lished science and theology, but simply of stating a theory. 
Of course to many people this doctrine will seem merely as a 
' cunningly-devised fable ' or an example of wild flights of 
imagination indulged in by a fanatical mind. 

3 An exception is the word ' Eden'. It is used in Genesis, 
chapter ii, to designate the third stratum of creation. In the 
aforesaid chapter of the Old Testament the phrase ' the garden 
of Eden' symbolizes the second phase of life : after sin arose, 
that phase became the place of judgment. 

Each phase of creation has a different degree of mental force 
belonging to it. The highest degree, and also the highest de- 
gree of the spiritual Understanding, is symbolized by the name 
Melcliisedec — "priest of the most high God" ; the third, by 
the name ' Elias ' and also by that of ' Abel ' ; the three 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 43 

language as follows: the seventh, or highest, 
phase is called Mount Sion — it is spoken of, also, 
as the Throne of God — ; the sixth is called the 
heavenly Jerusalem ; the fifth is symbolized by 
the name 4 Abraham ' ; the fourth, by that of 
4 Levi ' ; the third is called Eden ; the second, 
the day [or place] of Judgment ; 1 the first (the 
present world), Egypt. The three last-named 
phases are within the same space. High above 
the sidereal universe are four Spiritual creations, 
the earlier manifestations of Divine thought. 
The fifth phase and the fourth are within the 
same space. Upon the highest phase and the two 
preceding ones were produced multitudes of 
angels. When all of the lower strata of creation 
were finished, the fulfillment of the fore-ordained 
plan pertaining to materiality became essential, in 
order that there should be circulation for the 
mental force of minds in the higher phases of life. 2 
Hence man was made "a little lower than the 
angels". 

People remain in the second phase, also in each 
the third, the fourth, and the fifth, 3 for a certain 

following degrees are symbolized, respectively, by tbat wbich 
designates tbe corresponding pbase of creation. 

1 The words " outer darkness " refer to a condition in the 
second phase of life. 

2 Refer to page 6. 

8 The sixth stratum of creation, the heavenly Jerusalem, is 
their final state. 



44 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

term of years. Then c beholding as in a glass the 
glory of the Lord, they are changed into the same 
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of 
the Lord \ 1 Surely, " Eye hath not seen, nor ear 
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, 
the things which God hath prepared for them that 
love him." To the saints of old who with inward 
vision beheld that glory, what was suffering? 
— torture? — death? We may well believe that 
they were steadfast, " not accepting deliverance ; 
that they might obtain a better resurrection." 

The highest degree of spiritual Understanding 
was not manifested until Jesus opened the way 
into that tabernacle which is " the Holiest of all ". 2 
The prophets knew that that degree existed ; and 
they prophesied of the Messiah who was to come. 
Jesus said that David called him Lord ; and that 
Abraham i rejoiced to see his [Christ's] day : he 
saw it, and was glad'. But, as the Scripture 
expresses it, David had not ascended into the 
Heavens, although he foresaw the Lord always 
before his face ; 3 Abraham, although given the 
fifth degree of Spiritual thought, paid tithes unto 
Melchisedec [the highest degree of Understand- 

1 II Cor. iii : 18. 

2 Heb. ix : 3. With few exceptions (where passages are 
taken from the Old Testament), the quotations occurring in 
these pages are from the New Testament. 

8 Acts ii : 25 and 34. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 45 

ing], being blessed of him. " And without all 
contradiction the less is blessed of the better." 
Hebrews vii : 6, 7. St. Peter, in his 1st Epistle, 
chapter 1st, says that the earlier prophets searched 
diligently to find what the Spirit of truth which 
was in them signified, when it testified of the 
glory that was to come. 4 Unto whom it was 
shown that not unto themselves ' but unto those 
who should live in a future time, was the highest 
degree of Wisdom to be made known. Thus the 
earlier prophets received not those promises — 
although " having seen them afar off " — -for God 
had provided some better thing for the followers 
of Jesus, that the others without them should not 
be made perfect. 1 The highest degree of Truth, 
after being made manifest in the flesh and justi- 
fied in the Spirit, was seen of angels, and then 
received up into glory. I Timothy iii : 16. 

Moses was a minister of the fourth degree of the 
spiritual Wisdom, the degree symbolized by the 
name Levi. ' Under that priesthood people re- 
ceived the law.' 2 That degree did not overcome 
the people's material understanding, but condemned 
it for being contrary to the Spiritual. The con- 
demnation extended, of course, to the sins emanat- 
ing from that understanding, and there thus arose 
a material construction of the Commandments. 

1 Heb. xi :40. 2 neb. vii: 11. 



46 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

The highest degree of Spiritual thought, brought 
to light by Jesus, enabled people to obey the 
Spiritual law, and delivered them from their 
material nature which otherwise would have ex- 
isted, even after they had fulfilled the law of 
Moses. Were the material law the only path lead- 
ing to salvation they that obeyed not the law could 
not be saved. " Therefore it [salvation] is of 
faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the 
promise might be sure to all the seed " : 1 that is, 
when, in the next phase of life, intense remorse 
has finally caused the sinful to desire purity, the 
Spirit of God awakens in them discernment of the 
infinite Wisdom, and love for the Lord and for one 
another. Then divine Light gradually fills and 
regenerates their minds. That spiritual percep- 
tion of the higher Wisdom is born by the power 
of the Infinite, is the c Rock ' upon which Truth 
builds its understanding, and against which no 
moral discord can prevail. 2 4 Neither height nor 
depth, nor things present nor things to come', can 
more than temporarily separate the soul from its 
divine inheritance. There is no darkness, there 
is no depth, that the Spirit of God cannot pene- 
trate. Moreover, all understandings that are not 

1 Romans iv: 10. 

2 Reference in Matt, xvi: 15-18, to that 'Rock' is to the 
truth which Peter discerned and to which he there gives 
utterance. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 47 

founded on the immortal Truth are like ' houses 
built upon sand ' : they must eventually fall. 

" The law worketh wrath " ; i. e., showing sin to 
be " exceeding sinful *', it eventually causes intense 
remorse in the minds of those that transgress 
the law. But if sinful people were happy, they 
would have no desire for purity. As the means 
of bringing the mind into harmony, it is sooner or 
later given remorseful Consciousness of its own 
moral discord. Those who are awakened spirit- 
ually realize that the material nature is contrary 
to Spiritual thought, and that it is impossible for 
human power to overcome that nature. This con- 
viction causes a feeling of self-helplessness (instead 
of self-righteousness, which cannot enter the king- 
dom of God), the deep 4 poverty of spirit ' Avhich 
makes one willing to become as a little child, 
accepting, and relying upon, Divine aid. Jesus, 
in the days of his material perception, "offered 
up prayers and supplications with strong crying 
and tears unto him that was able to save him 
from death " ; J for although he was the Son of 
God, nevertheless, inheriting the material nature, 
only by this means could it be destroyed, enabling 
him to become at one with the Heavenly Father. 
Even Jesus 'learned obedience by the things 
which he suffered '. Being made perfect, the 

1 He was heard, in that he loved God. Heb. v: 7-9. 



48 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

Truth that sanctified him became the means of 
complete purification to all that received it, — people 
being thus delivered from their material nature, 
from which they could not be purified by the law 
of Moses. (Acts xiii : 39.) Moses was faithful in 
his understanding, for a testimony of that which 
was to be spoken afterward ; but the Truth that 
built the understanding is worthy of the highest 
honor. (Hebrews iii : 3-5.) l If perfection were 
by the Levitical priesthood' — i. e., if the fourth 
degree were the highest, and obeying the material 
law completed salvation — ' what further need was 
there that another mediator should have arisen, 
and not have been given the same degree of 
perception ? ' But as the understanding was 
changed, there was made " of necessity a change 
also of the law " ; for Christ was made a mediator, 
" not after the law of a carnal commandment, but 
after the power of an endless life." (Heb. vii : 11, 
12, 15, 16.) Aaron had the highest perception of 
the fourth degree of the spiritual Wisdom. But 
4 he that was called after the order of Melchisedec 
declared a far more excellent truth than that 
taught by the priests of Aaron's order '- 1 More- 
over, " By the eternal priesthood of Christ the 
Levitical priesthood of Aaron is abolished. And 
the temporal covenant with the fathers, by the 

1 Refer to the heading of the 7th chapter of Hebrews. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 49 

eternal covenant of the gospel." * As Jesus made 
manifest the highest Understanding, people are 
saved to the uttermost who come unto God through 
perception of that degree of Truth. Hebrews vii : 
24, 25. 

The fifth degree of Spiritual thought is power- 
ful enough to overcome the material nature and 
raise the mind to a higher plane. 2 'Abraham 
overcame his enemies, even though they were 
kings', 3 that is (referring to the subject in its 
abstract sense), the fifth degree of mental force 4 
gradually destroys that which is contrary to God — 
even though the error be great — in the minds of 
multitudes of people in the second phase of life. 
When they are finally transferred to the third 
phase, a corresponding number from each the third, 
the fourth, and the fifth, ascend to the next higher 
one. While people from the fourth phase 5 [called 
Levi] are } T et in the fifth [called Abraham], they 
are ' met by Melchisedec ' — the highest degree of 
the spiritual Understanding, a knowledge of which 
opens the gates of the heavenly Jerusalem. Be- 

1 See heading of the 8th chapter of Hebrews. 

2 Hence the Scripture saith unto Abraham : " In thee shall 
all nations be blessed." Galatians iii :8. 

3 Heb. vii :1. 

4 It acts through the mediumship of the people in the fourth 
and third phases, that they may be ' partakers of the benefit ', 
and giving, may receive in like measure. 

6 liefer to Hebrews vii :0, 10. 
4 



50 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

tween that phase of life and the highest, there is 
no vail ; for they that dwell in the holy Jerusalem 
have complete perception of and union with the 
infinite AVisdom 1 and are before the Throne of 
God, where they shall see His face, and where 
their perception shall be forever illuminated by 
His truth. Rev. xxii : 4. 

In the second and third phases of life people are 
in such close contact with error, that resistance to 
it must be continued. When they ascend to the 
fourth phase, the third intervenes between them 
and discord. They then 'cease from their own 
works ', and enter into the "rest" prepared for 
them. Hence, at the time of his ministry, Jesus 
did not give people that "rest" (though through 
him they could finally attain it) ; so reference is 
made to "another day", which comes when they 
reach the fourth phase. 2 

John the Baptist was the minister of the third 
degree of Spiritual thought, which, as already 
stated, does not include discernment of the higher 
degrees of Wisdom. In speaking of Christ, John 

1 Although they do not have the highest degree either of ap- 
preciation or of mental force, because that degree belongs to the 
seventh phase of life. In certain ages are born a particular 
number of people who eventually enter that phase and have 
the highest abstract degree of mental force. To avoid confusion 
of thought, this number is usually ignored in general state- 
ments. 

2 Hebrews iv : 8-10. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 51 

said: "I knew him not; but that he should be 
made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come bap- 
tizing with water." John i : 31. The highest 
Understanding, brought to light by Jesus, is a 
Truth which speaks better things than that of 
Abel; i. e., than that of the third degree. 1 John 
declared, " After me cometh a man which is pre- 
ferred before me : for he was before me," — mean- 
ing that the highest degree of Spiritual thought 
existed first ; referring thereto Jesus said, " Before 
Abraham was, I am." In Acts xviii : 25, 26, is 
an allusion to Apollos as knowing first, only the 
baptism of John, and being afterward instructed 
more perfectly in the way of God. 

In each phase of life are seven so-called 
'series'; viz., the mineral kingdom, vegetation, 
and — in a general classification of the animal king- 
dom according to its division into graduating 
'series' — insects, fish, fowl, four-footed animals; 2 
and Man, the seventh and highest series. 

From the grand Fountain of life, Above, a 
compound channel, containing botli (so-called) 
creative vessels and thought-vessels, proceeds 
downward to the brain, its primary section passing 
to the cerebrum, its secondary to the cerebellum. 
Above the head these two sections communicate 

1 Hebrews xii : 24. 

2 Sub-kingdoms and sub-classes are included in tbese four 
general series. 



52 A NEW BEPAHTURE. 

with each other. Through the creative vessels of 
this compound channel proceeds to the body a 
current of force which with its reflex action causes 
breathing : through these vessels passes also another 
life-giving current, which is constantly working to 
sustain and to restore. 1 In the so-called i thought- 
vessels ' of the compound channel is the mental 
force which constitutes the mind, and which, 
pressing downward upon the receptive point, the 
brain, and rebounding therefrom, causes conscious- 
ness and intelligence, the former dwelling in the 
cerebellum, the latter in the cerebrum. Three 
primary systems of thought-vessels proceed to the 
cerebrum. 2 In the normal intelligent state of the 
material mind two of these systems, the second and 
the third, are dormant. Through the first system 
mental force passes to the brain, and rebounds 
which causes perception. 3 The creative Thoughts 



1 In the body, motive power passing, through the compound 
channel, from the Fountain of life (God), and acting in sub- 
jection to the person's will, is that which produces voluntary 
motion. Mental currents from Above, passing through 
thought-vessels,. are the primary cause of mental activity. 

2 In arrangement, these systems are not by themselves ; each 
thought-vessel has two adjoining ones belonging to the other 
two systems. 

3 Perception, produced by the reflex action (from the brain) 
of mental currents in the thought-vessels, causes in the second- 
ary system consciousness; and in the first primary one, the 
normal material intelligence. Neither consciousness nor intel- 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 53 

that pertain to the body and to this phase of sub- 
stance pass to the cerebellum, where they are 
registered. A secondary system of thought-vessels 
proceeds to this part of the brain : through that 
system, also, the said creative Thoughts pass, and, 
rebounding, bring consciousness of existence ; also, 
of external surroundings when reacting, together 
with the sense of sight, upon a creative vessel that 
proceeds to the eye. In the primary thought- 
vessels is planted love. Its quality is determined in 
a measure by the character of the parents ; for the 
thought-vessels oi a child, mingling before birth 
with those of the parents, partake more or less of 
the mental force which pervades the latter chan- 
nels. Although oftentimes, in a child, this force 
is afterward overpowered by the influence of other 
minds. In a babe, the secondary system is 
gradually awakened first. At the same time are 
animated the senses that abide therein (and also 
in the three primary sj^stems) ; viz., sight, hearing, 
smell, taste, and touch. These senses react upon 
the creative vessels and thence proceed to the body ; 
reflex action carries the sensation to the thought- 
vessels. These senses are co-existent with active 
consciousness except in the material body, where 
there is sometimes an abnormal state, preventing 
the senses either from reaching their destination or 

ligence could exist without a receptive point — the Drain, and 
thence reflex action of the mental currents. 



54 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

else from reacting. The three primary systems, 
also, communicate with the creative vessels ; thus 
when either the second system or the third is 
awakened, that quality of the senses can pass to 
the body. 1 When, in a babe, the first primary 
system of thought-vessels is awakened, love springs 
forth, causing desires according to the nature of 
the mental force that passes to the brain. This 
love marks and emphasizes one's material indi- 
viduality. The individuality forms, as it were, 
a soil, which attracts and nourishes the thoughts 
congenial to it, and repels those that are not. 

The compound channel, 2 containing both thought- 
vessels and creative vessels, proceeds from the 
Fountain of life (God), to its terminus — the body. 
At a certain distance above the earth, even at the 
4 grand centre ' so-called, the compound channels 
of multitudes mingle, forming a mental atmos- 
phere : in the third phase of life — also in the suc- 
ceeding ones — there is no discord, and this inter- 
lacing of thoughts binds people together as the 
' members of one Bod} T , all having the same care, 
one for another '. In this world, where the material 



1 There are three so-called ' qualities ' of the senses, dwell- 
ing respectively in the three systems of primary thought- 
vessels. 

2 The term ' creative channel ' is often used to denote this 
entire, compound channel and also those mentioned on page 
56, Xote 2. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 55 

understanding hides the divine links of brotherhood, 
people have desires without regard to the well-being 
of others. As these mental emanations mingle at 
the grand centre and then pass downward, strife 
and dissension ensue. The Spirit of God brings 
harmony where it dispels the intervening discords. 
The second and third systems of thought-vessels 
are held dormant by a mental force, of a higher 
degree than the material. Sleep is caused when 
that force passes through the first system and the 
fourth (or secondary) one. Oftentimes the waves 
of material thought are not entirely lulled: in that 
case they react, generally upon the third system, 
shutting out therefrom the higher force which is 
thus prevented from either holding that system 
dormant or from governing it. Hence the said 
system becomes a chaos of wandering thoughts 
which enter from the mental atmosphere. When 
the higher force recedes from the first and second- 
ary systems, the regular mental currents return to 
their legitimate channel, and the third system is 
again held dormant. Perplexing mental waves 
sometimes attain such volume as to encroach upon 
that system, thus opening the door to a horde of 
wandering thoughts which rush in upon the brain, 
overwhelming the normal intelligence, and govern- 
ing the person by their own ungoverned currents 
[insanity]. 1 When the third system is awakened 

1 In some cases of mental derangement the third system of 



50 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

spiritually, it is held free from those incur- 
sions : in the words of Scripture, " The spirits 
of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For 
God is not the author of confusion, but of 
peace." 1 

In some people when the higher force holds the 
first and fourth systems dormant — that is, during 
sleep — , the regular mental currents occasionally 
react upon, and awaken, the second system, that 
part of the mind corresponding to the 'double' of 
objects : 2 this action causes a somnambulic state. 3 
In mesmerism, the will-power of one person forces 

thought-vessels may be active only at intervals, and the first 
system never wholly overwhelmed. 

1 1 Cor. xiv : 32, 33. 

2 Every object has a so-called ' creative channel ' proceeding 
to it. Each channel has two divisions : one of them passes to 
the object ; the other to a so-called 'double' of the object, in- 
visible except when that part of the mind corresponding to it 
is awakened. 

3 There are three so-called 'qualities' of light ; namely, (I) 
that which is visible to us in our normal, material state ; (2) 
that called the second quality,— the light of the double of ob- 
jects, with which it is co-existent ; and (3) the Spiritual, which 
is invisible to material sight. Each object, and each atom of 
matter, has a 'double', co-existent with it. Hence a somnam- 
bulist, whose second system of thought-vessels is awakened, 
can see, by the second quality of light, a complete reflection of 
the surrounding scene. Divers species in the series of lower 
conscious life have their second quality of sight awakened and 
can, as we say, "see in the dark" ; in other words tbey see 
by a quality of light that is invisible to us in our normal state. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 57 

another's mental currents into the third system, 
and through that system, governs the secondary 
thought-vessels. Thus the normal consciousness, 
as well as the normal intelligence, of the latter 
person is overpowered, and his thoughts and actions 
are controlled by the mesmerist. Sometimes the 
three primary systems of thought-vessels are dor- 
mant, and only the secondary system is awakened, 
the result being consciousness without intelligence. 
A mind may become inactive (because of an ab- 
normal state in the brain, preventing the reflex 
action of the mental force and thus preventing 
perception,) before the conflicting element in the 
creative channel has increased sufficiently to shut 
out the life-giving currents ; the body is thereby 
sustained, the same as if the thoughts were active. 
Hence a person can live after he has " lost his 
mind " — i. e., after his perception ceases. Thought- 
vessels and creative vessels communicate with each 
other; thus the state of mind can affect the body, 
and vice versa. There have been cases in which 
fright has thrown a cloud over the entire brain, 
shutting out the life-giving force so completely as 
to cause death. As in the so-called i mental heal- 
ing ' the mind through knowledge of its ability 
can oftentimes dispel, from a compound channel, 
obstructions which had prevented the life-giving 
force from passing in sufficient volume to keep 
the body in a healthy state. The healing power 



58 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

is the increased and the intensified force of 
4 Nature ', which is the Spirit of God, pervading 
the entire Universe. The force of which the body 
is the manifestation, partakes of that which has 
expression in the mineral, vegetable, and animal 
kingdoms, so that — while the life-giving current 
that passes through each compound channel is, in 
a measure, obstructed by a conflicting element — 
food shall aid in sustaining the body ; and medi- 
cine, in restoring it. In breathing, the active force 
(oxygen) which air contains pervades the body, 
separating the conflicting element which then has 
expression in carbonic acid. Life-giving force 
unceasingly passing to the body — through the 
creative channel — , aided by food, rebuilds that 
which oxygen consumes when it separates and 
causes to be expelled the impure element which 
pervades matter, and which if permitted to increase 
in the body far beyond the normal proportion would 
cause death. The aforesaid life-giving force from 
Above, passes downward to the brain and thence 
to all parts of the body. The reflux reacts upon 
the thought-vessels, bringing consciousness of any 
abnormal state of the organs, the mind being sus- 
ceptible to physical, as well as moral, discords; 
although the thoughts could be either mesmer- 
ized or controlled by one's own will-power, or 
they could be raised by spiritual perception, so 
as to be oblivious of these messages from the 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 59 

body, and consequently to be unconscious of 
pain. 1 

The grand centre (already mentioned) receives 
a mental impress from beneath, of everything vis- 
ible, and constantly throws the images, through 
the compound channel, to the cerebellum of the 
brain, where they are registered. These images, 
then reacting, erect, upon a creative vessel that 
proceeds to the eye, pass instantly to the retina, 
correcting the inverted image formed there by 
the object at which we are gazing. The images 
of surrounding objects pass also through the 
secondary thought-vessels and are preserved ; 
otherwise we could not have memory of external 
surroundings. Above the brain these thought- 
vessels expand, as do the primary ones also, and 
become a store-house for mental impressions. 

Perception of the mental currents in thought- 
vessels may include, independent of the body, con- 
sciousness of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, 
taste, and touch, 2 even as we have experienced in 
dreams. In the normal conscious state — that is, 
when of primary systems of thought-vessels, only 
the first is awakened — the material understanding 
which supposes these senses to exist only in the 

l A like result would follow suspension, before reaching the 
brain, of the reflex action of currents of force in the body. 

2 These senses abide in thought-vessels and thence pass to 
the body through creative vessels. See page 53. 



GO A NEW DEPARTURE. 

body prevents any such mental action. In some 
persons the thoughts can be voluntarily thrust 
either into the second system or into the third, and 
this cloud dispelled, bringing either perception, 
through the second system while the eye is closed, 
of the already-mentioned images of surrounding 
objects— which pass through the second system as 
Avell as through the secondary one — or else, as in 
clairvoyance (and while other systems of thought- 
vessels are nearly, or they might be wholly, dor- 
mant), perception, through the third system, 1 of 
material events and of the force pervading com- 
pound channels. Then, both the mental and the 
physical condition of people may be discerned ; 
also, their external surroundings. Every thought 
that ever entered the mind is preserved in the 
thought- vessels. Hence, a clairvoyant can follow 
a person's train of thought into the past. The al- 
ways-accompanying pictures of external surround- 
ings, stored in the secondary system, may also bo dis- 
cerned. 2 One's thought-vessels might be given 
communication also, with those of people in an- 
other phase of existence. Were the third system 

1 In that case the person's will-power, concentrated upon a 
subject, repels wandering thoughts which would otherwise 
enter the mind and bring confusion. 

2 One might have perception of only the primary thought- 
vessels of another's compound channel, and thus be enabled 
merely to " read " that part of the mind. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 61 

awakened to discern a higher Wisdom, currents 
therefrom might react upon a creative vessel that 
proceeds to the eye, thus awakening spiritual 
sight. 1 This sight was given to the seers of old, 
and to Jesus and some of his followers, enabling 
them to behold spiritual things. 

The material understanding is founded upon 
two corner-stones. One was laid by the supposi- 
tion that the creation is separate from the Spirit 
of God ; the other by perceiving each body as a 
self, instead of all people as united members in 
the Creator's conception of a human race. The 
former belief 2 caused a conflicting element to 
enter the creative vessels ; from the latter train 
of thought arose moral discord. 3 These two erro- 
neous conceptions brought the first knowledge 
of that which is contrary to Truth. From one of 
them arose innumerable theories — the material 

1 Mental currents from the third system can pass through 
the avenues of all the five senses. 

2 Reference to this belief signifies that which became an in- 
herent state in the mental organization in this life, — an in- 
herent state which we have no power to dispel, and which does 
not change with our change of understanding. 

3 These two beliefs are symbolized respectively by the for- 
bidden fruit and the serpent, mentioned in Genesis, chapter 
iii. The one affected the creative vessels ; the other brought 
selfishness. In the second phase of existence the first-men- 
tioned belief is destroyed ; therefore in that life the conflicting 
element does not exist : but selfishness and sin remain until 
divine Light purifies the mind. 



62 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

wisdom which " is foolishness with God " ; 1 from 
the other, sprang selfishness and sin. 

Even although the third system of thought- 
vessels were awakened to discern the infinite Wis- 
dom, spiritual perception (" faitli ") is dead if it 
he alone ; i. e., if the natural mind— that pervading 
the first system 2 — be not in harmony with it. 
Hence the twain must become one. St. Paul says, 
" This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning 
Christ and the church " ; 3 i. e., Truth, and the per- 
ception thereof awakened in the third system and 
finally having the first united with it in that per- 
fect love which binds all thoughts in the peace 
that the world can neither give nor take away. 
The mind is illuminated through discernment of 
the infinite Wisdom, and is then regenerated, 
purified from material thought, through spiritual 
works. When material thoughts perish, the 
spiritual nature is renewed day by day. The light 
affliction (every giving up of earthly desires), 
which is but for a moment, worketh a far more ex- 
ceeding and eternal weight of glory. II Cor. iv : 
16,17. 

!I Cor. iii : 18-20. 

2 Reference, in these pages, to the material nature signifies 
the conscious natural mind. Even if the mind were regener- 
ated, — the material nature, understanding, or perception, over- 
come, — the inherent state in our mental organization (seepage 
(51. Note 2), which holds the hody in a material condition 
would continue. 3 Ephesians v : 32. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 63 

In the natural condition of the body the conflict- 
ing element would still pervade it, even though 
the mind were in union with God. Reacting upon 
the thought-vessels, this element would resist the 
Spiritual force and would tend to reanimate one's 
material nature. St. Paul says : " I see another 
law in my members, warring against the law of 
my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the 
law of sin which is in my members." Romans vii : 23. 

At death — that is, when the life-giving currents 
no longer pass through the body — a higher force 
sweeps through the creative vessels and expels 
therefrom both the conflicting element and the 
first stratum of creative force. This completely 
detaches the compound channel from the body, 
and the former is wafted within the second phase 
of life, where force of the second stratum passes 
through the creative vessels and at once forms 
another manifestation, a spiritual body. 1 " That 
which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that 
shall be", but only the creative channel. In the next 
phase of life, " Godgiveth it a body as it hath pleased 
him," and giveth to every mind its individual 
body. 2 When the reflex action of the vital cur- 

1 While a body partakes of any one phase of substance, other 
phases of creation offer no more resistance to it than if they 
had never been formed. Each phase is just as complete in 
itself as if it were the only one. 

2 1 Cor. xv : 37, 38. In these verses the word 'body' has 
the ordinary meaning. 



64 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

rents recommences, the second system of thought- 
vessels is awakened to discern the cause of external 
surroundings : hence, belief that the creation is 
separate from the Spirit of God is destroyed, and 
the life-giving force is then unobstructed by a con- 
flicting element. The mental impress of former sur- 
roundings, originally stored in the fourth, or second- 
aiy, system of thought- vessels, is transferred to the 
first system. Thus retrospection proceeds from 
the latter system, and the former is left free to 
sustain consciousness of the surroundings in the 
second phase of life. The volumes of thought 
stored in the recesses of the mind are then opened 
and the mental leaves are wafted across the brain 
— pressed downward upon it by the higher mental 
atmosphere — causing retrospection which the per- 
son cannot elude and which continues until spiritual 
knowledge and love supplant it. " That [the na- 
ture] which thou sowest is not quickened, except 
it die " : for corruption cannot inherit incorruption, 
— materiality cannot inherit immortality. 1 

1 In the second phase of life one's personality not only re- 
mains hut is intensified and is stamped upon the face, which 
has its former shape, features, and individual character and 
expression. When the mind becomes spiritual, there still re- 
mains, in a higher form, all that it before contained of purity 
and unselfish love. The face becomes spiritualized, idealized 
according to its own type, but loses not its individual character. 
The body is clothed in raiment made not with bands. Of the 
pure in heart, the vesture is white and becomes luminous ; of 
others it is dark in proportion to their moral error. 



A NEW BEPABTUBE. 65 

In the second phase of existence if the mental 
currents are denied they darken the body and the 
raiment, which otherwise become luminous. Jesus 
said, " If therefore thine eye be single [if the 
thoughts be pure], thy whole body shall be full of 
light." (Matthew vi : 22.) The same verse can be 
interpreted also as follows : The light of the per- 
ception is the thought : if the thoughts are spiritual, 
the whole perception shall be pervaded by Truth. 
But when that which is in thee is error, how great 
is that error ! When thy ruling thought offends 
thee, pluck it out, artd cast it from thee : for it is 
profitable for thee that one of thy desires should 
perish, rather than that thy whole perception should 
be cast into remorse. Refer to Matthew v : 29. In 
the next phase of life the mental currents flow 
through the body ; l their reflux reacts upon the 
thought- vessels bringing consciousness of any moral 
discord, which causes pain. Every one then re- 
ceives " the things in his body, according to that 
he hath done, whether it be good or bad " ; 2 for it 
will be rendered to every one according to his 
deeds. (Romans ii : 6,) When error is entirely 
overcome, sorrow and pain pass away : discernment 



1 In this world the already-mentioned inherent state, in our 
mental organization prevents those currents from passing 
through the body. 

2 IT Cor. v : 10. In the quotation the word 'done' which is 
inserted before the word 'body' does not belong there. 



66 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

and love of the higher Wisdom " make all things 



new 



When the compound channel is detached from 
the first body and wafted within the second stratum 
of Spirit it is attracted to, and its second expres- 
sion is produced among, congenial minds. Until 
the people are purified from material thought, their 
normal state of mind, a state of retrospection, is in 
the first system of thought-vessels. When the 
third system is finally awakened, higher Spiritual 
knowledge is sustained by perception. Gradually 
increasing, the higher mental force eventually per- 
vades the first system. When the mind becomes 
at-one with God, the normal state is in the second 
system. 2 The change to a still higher phase of 
existence is possible only when force belonging to 
that stratum of Spirit is sent through the com- 
pound channel, causing the body to partake of that 

2 The bliss of Heaven is attained by ministering unto others, 
and by giving as freely as is received the spiritual Wisdom 
" which maketh a new creature ". 

2 In each phase of life except the lowest one, people receive 
the degree of mental force belonging to that phase (see page 
42, second paragraph of Note 3), through their second system 
of thought-vessels, in which — except with the unregenerated 
people in the second phase — is then the regular, normal stale 
of mind. Through the third system they can be given dis- 
cernment of the higher phases of life, and through the first 
system, of the lower ones. In the latter system always remains 
a mental .outline of one's life in this world, the memory of 
which can be recalled at desire. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 67 

stratum of creation. It is ' God who has deter- 
mined the times before appointed, and the bounds 
of people's habitation * : 1 neither man nor angel has 
power to cause that change. 

In the higher phases of life, " He giveth his be- 
loved sleep ", — overshadowing them, temporarily, 
with a degree of mental force that brings uncon- 
sciousness. Moreover, in the second phase of exist- 
ence this force, at intervals, brings sleep to every 
one. In minds that are not purified, the thoughts 
react upon the third system, causing dreams which 
are a retrospect of one's past life. 

1 Acts xvii : 26. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE CREATION. 

According to this understanding : — 
The Spirit of God, the Divine thought, 1 is 
Light. From a nucleus of that Light, the Spirit 
of the Creator passed downward and formed crea- 
tion according to the Divine conception, or |)lan. 
In order that Creative force shall become 'sub- 
stance ', 2 there must be reflex action of currents of 
the force. This action, crowding back the higher 
currents and finally being stopped in the upward 
course by them, causes the creation to become 
'substance' to everything partaking of the same 
stratum of creative Light. Were currents of 
force prevented from arising, or were they not, 
in their upward course^ obstructed by the higher 
force, 'substance' would be dissolved into gas. 
After proceeding a certain distance, force continu- 

1 This Spirit, or Thought, has the creative and sustaining 
force, and has also the mental currents that awaken spiritual 
perception. 

2 Where the terra 'solids and liquids', or even the word 
'matter', would not be suitable the term 'substance' is used, 
signifying that which is not gaseous. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 69 

ously arising in creative channels is met and 
stopped by the aforesaid higher currents that over- 
shadow a creation. These forces together form the 
'grand centre', so-called. 

One beam of Light had always existed. The 
terminus of that beam (the point where it was 
obstructed by darkness,) was a Consciousness of 
the source. The beam had no added power until 
it was increased by the Consciousness ; therefore 
had that Consciousness ever been lacking, it could 
never have been supplied. The highest Light is 
the "Word" which 'in the beginning was with 
God, and was God'; and without which "was not 
an} 7 thing made that was made "- 1 Consciousness 
of it begat love — of the light, where all else was 
darkness. Thought of light increased the light : 
love generated the first rays of intelligence by de- 
siring the increase to have the form of an object. 
If the Thought that increases the highest force, or 
light, is of an object, the outline thereof is co-ex- 
istent with that force. The first outline was of a 
Body. The terminus of that light became the 
Divine form. The terminus of the next increase 
laid the foundation of the " golden altar " : then 
was. formed the first " horn ", or section, of the 
highest phase of creation. Gradually-developing 
thought traced in the light which it constantly 
produced, the outlines of objects. First were pro- 
1 John i : 1-4. 



70 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

dueecl minerals. Force arising therefrom, to the 
grand centre, broke the stream of light that pro- 
ceeded to them : that force was thus resolved into 
many colors. The stream became the fountain of 
color. In subsequent creation within that limit, 
currents proceeding from it produced their respect- 
ive hues. To parts of the creation, 1 force was 
caused to proceed and to form there rivers of water. 
Next, increase of Creative force, caused and gov- 
erned by the Intelligence, produced vegetation. 
The creation was reproduced three times, making 
in all 4 four horns to the golden altar'. 2 Divine 
thought then conceived the idea of conscious life. 
The lowest series was produced first. Ripples of 
mental force proceeded to them all, animating and 
governing. Thought of purity and love rested 
upon flowers, and a sweet fragrance arose there- 
from ; that of joy and peace upon birds, and they 
burst into song. Finally, Intelligence conceived 
the idea of life that should be capable of compre- 
hending the wisdom and power that created it, and 
of returning the love that is co-existent with the 
Most High. Hence the seventh series was to be 
made * in the image and likeness of God ', and to 
be given receptive, and thus perceptive, faculties 
which when spiritually awakened and fully devel- 
oped should discern all things. Increase of Crea- 

1 Referring to the seventh, or highest, phase. 

2 Rev. ix: 13. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 71 

tive force proceeded from the Nucleus, by the 
power of the Intelligence. As intelligence devel- 
oped, the Nucleus became glorious, — that light 
"which no man can approach unto". It contains 
the original Outline which " no man hath seen, nor 
can see ". I Tim. vi : 15, 16. 

Seven thousand creative Thoughts are included 
in the force of which the body is the manifesta- 
tion. 1 These Thoughts eventually passed to each 
of the four " horns ", or parts, of the seventh phase 
of creation. Each creative Thought was held as 
a germ, to which proceeded the increase of force 
containing the entire number. Thus each germ 
became a complete, spiritual body ; and thus was 
formed a mystical Body, or race, at each quarter 
of the phase. Then all the creative Thoughts were 
registered in the cerebellum of eacli brain, and 
also passed through the secondaiy system of 
thought-vessels. Currents of force then arose, 
causing the body to become ' substance ', and the 
mind to become conscious. Mental waves passing 
through primary thought-vessels gave rise to 
active thought and thereby to intelligence. In 
this highest series, of seven thousand angels in 
each of the four races, each angel was given a 
different degree of perception, or intellect, and a 
different capacity for appreciation, — a spiritual 

1 Further reference to the number ' seven thousand ' will 
be found in these pages. 



72 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

individuality. At each quarter of the phase they 
were arranged, according to this difference, as the 
many members of a mystical Body, and were classed 
in seven grand groups. In the head, or highest 
group of each grand Body, or race, are seven 
angels representing the seven parts of a body : the 
one representing the head is referred to in Revela- 
tion (iv: 4-8) as a " beast" ; the others are called 
" elders ". In the same group in each race are 
also three other angels who, together, are called 
the twelve Apostles of the Lamb — ministers of the 
infinite Wisdom. The three in a race represent, 
respectively, the first, second, and third, prime 
degrees of the grand Body. 1 The six lower grand 
groups at each quarter of the phase are referred to 
as the six wings which are about each beast. St. 
Paul says that the daj^s, months, and weeks, " are 
a shadow of things to come ; but [refer to] the 
[mystical] body of Christ." 2 In following the 
rule for the division of time, we find the number 



1 The name ' Melchisedec ' symbolizes the highest degree of 
mental force and of the spiritual Understanding [see page 42, 
Note 3], and also the first prime degree of the grand Body. 
Moreover, it is the name given to the highest member of one 
of the races in the original fourfold grand group of augels 
created in the seventh phase of life. 

2 Col. ii: 16, 17. The word 'is' inserted in the quotation 
does not belong there. In some cases in the New Testament 
the word ' body ' refers to a mystical Body of people or of 
angels. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 73 

of the original fourfold mystical Body. The four 
seasons symbolize the four races ; the three 
months of each season symbolize, when taken 
together, the three prime degrees into which a grand 
Body is divided as follows : first, the head ; second, 
the three higher groups of the Body ; third, the three 
lower groups. Each of these prime degrees, sym- 
bolized by a month, has one corresponding to it in 
each of the other races ; and these four (one from 
each race), when taken together, are symbolized by 
the four weeks which compose a month. Each of 
the two lower prime degrees, being composed of 
three groups, is resolved, so to speak, into three 
4 weeks ', or divisions ; and each of these divis- 
ions is a mystical Body. In a grand Body, or 
race, are four series of divisions, 1 or groups, often 
called Bodies. In each Body in all but the lowest 
series, there are a few angels, the ministers, in the 
head ; in the other groups of the Body are those 
belonging to the next lower series. 

The first series of divisions in each grand Body, 
or race, contains, besides the head, or highest prime 
degree, six weeks, or grand groups, three in each 
of the two lower prime degrees. Each of these 
lower groups is a mystical Body belonging to the 
first series and having seven parts. Seven angels 

1 The head, or highest prime degree, of the grand Body is 
excepted, it being composed of only the ten angels already 
mentioned. 



74 .4 NEW DEPARTURE. 

are in the head : they are typified by the seven 
days which are in a week. These angels have 
that degree of perception included in the six lower 
groups of their own division, and in the corre- 
sponding groups of the other races, together mak- 
ing the twenty-four degrees symbolized by the 
twenty-four hours which are in a day. Each of 
these groups is a Body belonging to the second 
series and having six parts instead of seven. The 
head contains three angels who represent the prime 
degrees of that Body. These three angels have the 
degree of perception included in the five lower 
groups of their own division, — which division is 
but one of the three groups composing a prime 
degree in a division belonging to the next higher 
series, — the three angels aforesaid have the degree 
of perception included in the five lower groups 
of their own division, and in the corresponding 
groups belonging to those other two Bodies 2 that 
complete a prime degree of a division in the next 
higher series (making 5 x 3=15) ; and in the cor- 
responding groups of the other races, together 
making (15x4=) sixty degrees symbolized by 
the sixty minutes which are in an hour. Each 

1 In the series that have only two Bodies in the lowest prime 
degree of a division, there is, of course, a discrepancy, which 
is ignored when counting the degrees included in the percep- 
tion belonging to the angels in the head of each of the two 
Bodies composing an aforesaid prime degree. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 75 

division in this third series has six groups : three 
angels are in the head, or highest group. The 
same plan is repeated in this series, bringing the 
next sixty degrees. They are s} r mbolized by the 
sixty seconds which are in a minute. Nothing 
less than a second is counted in our computation 
of time ; hence we find that the fourth series of 
divisons completes the grand mystical Body. Each 
group in this series contains seven angels, one 
of whom represents the head. Beginning at the 
lowest series and ascending according to this rule, 
the number of angels in each of the original four 
races is found as follows : Seven angels, compos- 
ing a Body belonging to the fourth series, are in 
each of the five lower groups of a Body belonging 
to the third series, and with the three angels in 
the head of that Body make thirty-eight. This 
division is but one of five lower groups in a Body 
belonging to the second series, each group contain- 
ing a like number. Hence, together, there are 190 ; 
the three angels in the head, or highest group, of 
that Body make 193. This is but one division of 
a Body belonging to the first series, which Body is 
composed of six lower groups (each one contain- 
ing a like number), and a head, in which are seven 
angels : 193 x 6=1158 ; the seven added make 1165. 
This division is but one of the six grand groups 
composing the two lower prime degrees of a grand 
Body, or race. The grand Body has in the head, 



76 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

or highest prime degree, ten angels ; namely, the 
"beast", six elders, and three Apostles of the 
Lamb : 1165 x 6=6990 ; the ten added make seven 
thousand. 

In the Divine conception relative to this angel 
life, man represented the Creative wisdom. Then 
was formed at each quarter of the phase a second 
and corresponding mystical Body — woman, to 
represent the conception that sprang from the 
Wisdom. Hence it is neither man alone nor 
woman alone, but the twain as one, that represent 
the complete design. 

Another phase of creation could not be pro- 
duced until angel life existed upon the highest 
one ; otherwise, there would have been nothing to 
hold the increase of Creative force separate from 
the original stratum. The thought-vessels of 
angels formed a channel, across which the said 
increase proceeded, and being separated from the 
highest phase formed another one — the heavenly 
Jerusalem. Thus by means of the original angel 
life, 4 God made the worlds,' all things being up- 
held thereby. (Hebrews i : 2.) The highest degree 
of Spiritual thought was afterward given to Jesus. 
Through it he was enabled to overcome his 
material nature and to ascend to the seventh 
phase of life, even ' to sit with the Father upon 
His throne \ Rev. iii : 21. 

The Light that afterward produced, the first 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 77 

highest fourfold mystical Body, and then the 
heavenly Jerusalem, sprang from Divine thought 
relative to a solar universe — a complete solar crea- 
tion. 1 It contains a central sun, and surrounding 
that sun, twenty-eight thousand heavenly bodies. 
Seven thousand of them are primary suns. The 
remaining number form respectively the centre of 
comets and of the gaseous nebulae. Most of these 
centres have, either sweeping away from them or 
surrounding them, more or less of the additional 
force which, had it belonged to a solar system, 
would have formed planets. Each of the seven 
thousand aforesaid suns is surrounded by a system 
of twenty-eight thousand primaiy planets ; one- 
fourth the number are for habitation. The planets 
that are uninhabited, and the satellites, are the 
main source of their sun's supply of inflammable 
gas. There are seven thousand systems in a solar 
universe. 2 Each system has seven thousand 

1 Each succeeding universe is formed according to the same 
plan. The subject is again referred to in this chapter. Be- 
fore angel life was created in the seventh phase, a general 
design pertaining to a solar universe was conceived, and the 
number in the highest fourfold mystical Body was then chosen 
in accordance with that which should be used in sundry suc- 
ceeding realizations of the Divine plan. 

2 Called ' universe ' in distinction from the solar systems 
Avhich compose it, though it is but one part of the grand side- 
real system, — a solar ' universe ' (each one being a complete 
solar creation) having been formed during certain periods, 
ever since the beginning of time. Except in the length of time 



78 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

planets that are inhabited, upon each of which 
were produced the seven ' series ' (see page 51). 
Hence upon each of the said planets were created 
the four races, having 7001 people in each race. 1 
In the sixth phase of life the original number 
of angels, twenty-eight thousand, were produced 
first, — a repetition of the four grai)d mystical Bodies 
created upon the 4 Throne ', but forming only one 
(the highest) prime degree, or " gate ", of each race 
in the heavenly Jerusalem. Then the compound 
channel of each of these angels became the means 
of separating the increase of Light. This force, 
containing the highest series of creative Thoughts, 
passed across each of the said channels. Each 
creative Thought was held as a germ, and every 
germ became a complete body. Thus there was 
then a second prime degree, or "gate", in each 
quarter of the phase, containing seven thousand 
angels to every one in the first degree. This plan 
was repeated, making a third " gate " on each side 

required for production, the details pertaining to this sub- 
ject apply equally to the later universe to which our sun be- 
longs, and to each preceding one. 

1 In this statement and the following ones, to avoid confu- 
sion of thought, only one sex is spoken of. In the Divine con- 
ception according to which angel life and human life wore 
formed is always the design of the four races and of the two 
grand mystical Borlies in each race. Allusion in these pages 
to the several races refers (o only the four original ones : they 
are mentioned on page 184. The Malayan race sprang from 
intermarriage. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 79 

of " the city "- 1 In numbers, this (fourfold) 
prime degree exceeded the second one, seven 
thousand to one. The number created in these 
two lower fourfold degrees was to be equal to that 
originally produced upon the planets of a solar 
universe. The angels in each of the two lower 
prime degrees of a race in the heavenly Jerusalem 
are classed in six grand groups. 2 The groups in 
one race were represented upon our planet, at the 
time of Jacob, by ' the twelve tribes of Israel ' ; 
Jacob represented the highest prime degree. In 
the same race, David represented the first prime 
degree — the same as Melchisedec represents — in 
a grand mystical Body belonging to the highest 
phase of life. Abraham (the man) represented 
the second prime degree of the same Body ; Isaac, 
the third. 

In connection with the preceding details 3 rela- 
tive to a grand Body, or race, created in the seventh 
phase, it will be seen that, in the symbolic words 
of Scripture, Abraham gave unto Melchisedec " the 
tenth of the spoils " ; i. e., when, eventual^, the 
fifth decree of mental force had overcome error in 

1 Rev. xxi: 13. 

2 But when the original number in one race in the sixth 
phase is referred to, in the seventh chapter, as a mystical Body, 
the first prime degree is counted for one part, and the twelve 
groups of the lower degrees are classed in six parts, two groups 
being in each. 

3 See pages 73-76. 



80 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the " kings " (referring, in this case, to those that 
should arise in the seventh phase of life), they all 
were ministered unto by Abraham except those 
that belonged to the highest prime degree of the 
grand Body : ' they were given unto Melchisedec' 1 



1 Heb. vii : 1-4. For the other interpretation of verse 1 — 
referring to the subject in its abstract sense — see page 49. 
Sundry passages in Scripture refer to both an abstract and a 
concrete number. Always excepting certain members among 
the early followers of Jesus, the first group of people to 
enter the seventh phase of life— mentioning here only one 
race — was composed of Abrabam, Isaac, and a remnant of 
their descendants. The details relative to this group apply to 
each succeeding one of the same degree. Tbe names ' Abra- 
ham' and 'Melchisedec ' are used, although, strictly speaking, 
in the explanation given above, they denote the corresponding 
members of the second group, because the people belonging 
in the one with Abraham had not been created * at the time, 
mentioned in Genesis, chap, xiv., that the Prophet overcame 
the "kings". At that time members of the second group 
were not awakened spiritually ; later, in the second phase of 
life, they were ministered unto by tbe ' Abraham ' of their 
own group. [For such readers as may wish to inquire partic- 
ularly into this doctrine, these details and also those in 
parenthesis, beginning on page 192, are given, in order that 
statements may not seem to be contradictory.] Among the 
sons of Jacob, Judah was he from whom were descended the 
members — of course excepting Abraham and Isaac — composing 
the first one of these groups. These people were but few, 
comparatively, of the number in the "tribe of Judah" ; and 
generally, reference in the New Testament to that 'tribe' is 



* In chapter vi. are given the periods within which were created 
the people composing the aforesaid groups. 



A NE W DEPA R T URE. 8 1 

In this connection the lower groups of all the 
mystical Bodies in a series of divisions are classed 
together as one degree ; the heads, or higher 
groups, as another degree. There being four 
series of divisions and also a grand Body, it makes 
in all ten abstract degrees; the "tenth part", 
given to Melchisedec, being the highest prime 
degree, or group, of the grand Body ; and more- 
over, that group is composed of ten angels. 

St. Paul says, that in the resurrection — meaning 
in this case, when man shall have reached his final 
state — , " There is one glory of the sun [referring 
to the people that belong to the seventh stratum 
of creation], and another glory of the moon [those 
in the highest prime degree of the sixth phase], 
and another glory of the stars [those in the twelve 
groups of the lower prime degrees] : for one star 
differeth from another star in glory." He again 
alludes to the difference in his reference to the 
four kinds of flesh, one symbolizing perception of 
the seventh abstract degree of mental force ; and 
the others, the three general degrees of perception 

to people whose final state is the sixth phase. St. Paul, how- 
ever, uses the phrase ' the tribe of Judah ' to signify even the 
original grand group created in the seventh phase of life. To 
that tribe no man had given attendance at the altar (Heb. vii : 
13, 14) ; even ' Moses had spoken nothing concerning that 
priesthood' ; i. e., the highest degree of Understanding had 
not been discerned until Jesus, who was called after the order 
of Melchisedec, declared it. Refer to Heb, v : 10-14, 
6 



82 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

in the heavenl} r Jerusalem. 1 " There are also celes- 
tial bodies [those in the seventh phase of life], and 
bodies terrestrial [those in the sixth] : but the 
glory of' the celestial is one, and the glory of the 
terrestrial is another." I Cor. xv : 39-41. 

The twelve angels in the heavenly Jerusalem 
who belong, by right of the degree of perception 
given them, to the heads of the twelve groups in 
the two lower prime degrees of one race were rep- 
resented by the sons of Jacob ; and again Ivy the 
Apostles, who, Jesus said, should sit upon twelve 
thrones, judging the tribes of Israel. 2 

In Eden, the number created in each of the four 
races was seven thousand and one, — the latter 
being the highest member of the mystical Body. 
(That member of the Caucasian race is called 
" Adam ".) One from each planet that is inhabited 
makes seven thousand in a solar system. It will 
be found, that that number of people from each of 
the seven thousand sj^stems in this solar universe 
makes the same as was created in the second prime 
degree of one race in the sixth phase. Again : the 
seven thousand people belonging to that mystical 
Body of which Adam was the highest member, to- 

1 In the spiritual Understanding are many of these degrees 
of perception. Johnxiv:2. St. Paul's reference to the four 
kinds of flesh alludes also to an inherent difference of percep- 
tion in the four races. 

2 Matthew xix : 28. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 83 

gether with the same number from each of the 
seven thousand planets that are inhabited in each 
of the seven thousand systems, make the same 
number as were created in the third prime degree 
of one race in the heavenly Jerusalem. The mul- 
titudes of stars visible, prove that the Creator's 
power is infinite. It has been supposed that, in 
the production of human life, the Power was lim- 
ited to the creation of one man and one woman ! 
A solar universe is to represent the original angel 
life created in the seventh and sixth phases. The 
28,000 angels in the highest phase are represented 
together by a central sun. In the highest series of 
prime degrees in the sixth phase (even four degrees, 
one in each race), there are that same number of 
angels ; they are represented by the 28,000 heavenly 
bodies which surround a central sun. 1 As only one- 
fourth of that number are suns, each of these suns 
represents four angels belonging to the first series 
of prime degrees in the heavenly Jerusalem. 
There being in the second series, 7,000 angels to 
each of these four, they (the 7,000 in each race) are 
represented by the 28,000 planets which surround 
a primary sun. Again : as only one-fourth of that 
number of planets are inhabited, each of the latter 
represents four angels belonging to the second 
series of prime degrees. These four angels were 
represented individually, by the highest members 

1 Befer to page 77. 



84 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

respectively of the four races originally created 
upon the planet. Thus in the highest series of 
four prime degrees, or " gates " (one in each race), 
there are four angels to a sun ; in the second series, 
four to each planet that is inhabited ; and in the 
third, 28,000 angels to each of the said planets, 
7,000 to each race : thus there is one to each person 
of the original number, excepting the highest 
member, who represented an angel belonging to 
the second series. In the highest series, the four 
angels to a sun are represented by four people 
born upon a planet, one in each race. In this solar 
system Abel represented the angel of one race. 
Enoch represented the corresponding angel created 
in the seventh phase of life. 

Angel life in the sixth phase formed a channel, 
across which the Spirit of God proceeded, and 
produced the fifth stratum of creation. The 
requisite force ] sprang from Divine thought rel- 
ative to a plan to be fulfilled daring the ages of 
materiality in solar universes. [St. Paul says, that 
the followers of Jesus were chosen before the 
foundation of the world.] 2 The early prophets 
were given discernment of some parts of that plan. 
They prophesied of Jesus, and of events that should 

1 It contained also the fourth stratum; although the latter 
was not separated and made ' substance ' until angel life was 
created in the fifth phase. 

2 Eph. i: 4. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 85 

take place during his life. In the records of that 
life, incidents are mentioned as having occurred 
" that the scriptures of the prophets might be ful- 
filled "*■ In the fifth phase of life were created 
those — in numbers the same as in the sixth — who 
are referred to in Scripture as the angels than 
whom, man was made a little lower — " of the dust 
of the ground " ; i. e., of the force wafted from a 
higher stratum. These angels were the means by 
which the fourth stratum of Light was separated. It 
then formed the fourth phase of creation. Thereto, 
the said angels were transferred. 2 -Thence, force 
gradually passed downward, and produced the first 
solar universe. The creative Light contained 
three strata of force, which were not separated until 
life was created ' lower than the angels '. 

In the first epoch of one thousand years were 
created " the heaven and the earth ", meaning, in 
this case, the seventh phase of substance and the 
sixth. 3 Active thought, during that time, increased 
Light sufficiently to produce those creations and 
also the conscious life thereon. (After angel life 
began, Light was increased, also, by thought that 
arose from them to the original Nucleus.) In the 
1st chapter of Genesis the word 4 waters ' signifies 

1 Matt, xxvi: 56. Refer also to Luke xxiv: 44. 

2 In the heavenly Jerusalem and also upon the fourth phase 
were created the four series of lower conscious life, like those 
previously formed upon the seventh stratum of creation. 

3 liefer to the 1st chapter of Genesis. 



86 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the conception, or plan, relative to the several 
phases of substance. The account of the original 
grand creation begins with that of the sixth phase. 1 
It was void [not created], " and darkness was upon 
the face of the deep" [throughout space], until 
the Spirit of God, the creative Light, moved upon 
the face of the conception, and, passing downward 
from it, produced a manifestation thereof — first, 
the heavenly Jerusalem. Then u God said, Let 

1 A ' grand creation ', so-called, comprises a series of four 
higher creations, the three phases of a solar universe, and 
series of conscious life. In the 1st chapter of Genesis is given 
a general account of the forming of a grand creation. Refer- 
ence to the several ' series ' in the higher phases is not in- 
cluded in that account. In the aforesaid chapter are mentioned 
the six long epochs of production. They were followed by a 
short period of rest, establishing a Sabbath as a Divine law. 
In the 2d chapter of Genesis will be found details pertaining 
to the third and second phases : the first, or lowest, one is 
alluded to in Genesis, chapter iii. In the 1st chapter of Genesis 
the Divine acts of creation are considered as having been 
finished, in the lower phases, when nothing remained for the 
completion of those phases except reflex action of current of 
Creative force : but this action did not begin until after the first 
Sabbath. Hence in the 2d chapter reference is made to a part 
of the preceding account as to "every plant of the field before 
it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew". 
The final act, which caused a phase of creation to become 
'substance', took place when (in the symbolic words of Script- 
ure), "There went up a mist from the earth.'" This quota- 
tion from Genesis ii : 0, refers there to the third phase, but 
applies also, in turn, to the two lower ones. The first and 
second phases are spoken of as ' lower' than the third, refer- 
ring not to position but to degree. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 87 

there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, 
and let it divide the waters [the conception of the 
higher creations] from the waters [the conception 
of a solar universe]. * * * And God called the 
firmament Heaven ", signifying in this case the 
fifth and fourth phases of creation, they being 
within the same space : they were formed during 
the second millenary. In the third millenary, the 
first solar universe was outlined, and also the re- 
spective places of land and water upon the planets 
thereof. There was outlined, also, the vegetable 
kingdom upon the orbs that were designed for 
habitation. During the fourth millenary, thought 
produced sufficient force to give all the orbs their 
respective volume. In the fifth, the conception 
' brought forth abundantly ', — force was wafted 
downward containing the outlines of the fish and 
fowl afterward made substance upon the multi- 
tudes of planets inhabited. In the sixth, were 
outlined the other series of the lower conscious 
life ; and last the highest series — man, made in the 
image and likeness of God. The seventh millen- 
ary dawned with a day (twenty-four hours) of 
rest, a hallowed day that " was made for man ". 

The force that produced solar orbs passed in a 
creative channel which proceeds to a vertical sec- 
tion of the orb. In the seventh millenary, a cur- 
rent of the force in the third stratum of Spirit was 
parted in the centre of each, sun, and in every 



88 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

planet and satellite. 1 It then proceeded in oppo- 
site directions. Passing, in horizontal courses, to 
the grand centre from the two opposite parts of an 
orb, it, together with the force that overshadows a 
creation, caused 'substance'. 2 [Of the current 
of force that unceasingly passes to an orb and is 
parted in the centre thereof, the portion toward 
the creative channel rebounds ; this force arising, 
in the said channel, to the grand centre would 
cause the orb to be drawn in that direction, Avere 
it not that the attraction is counterbalanced by the 
downward pressure in the twin division of each 
creative vessel in the channel. 3 The other portion 
of the aforesaid force continues through its half of 
the orb, and escapes at the surface thereof. This 
current arises until it is met, at the grand centre 
of that half of the globe, by the force that over- 
shadows a creation. Being then stopped and 
wafted aside, it is attracted toward the creative 
channel ; rushing thither, it constantly and irre- 

1 These details apply, also, to the two succeeding strata when 
they were separated. The subject may seem clearer, to con- 
sider that the details pertaining to a solar universe refer to the 
one to which our sun belongs, although, as already stated, they 
apply also to each preceding one. 

2 See page G8. 

3 Of a creative vessel, the division [see page 56, Note 2] that 
proceeds to the ' double ' of an object has no upward current : 
that pressure, being wholly downward, counterbalances the 
attraction which force (by reason of its reflex action) offers to 
the solids that it produced. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 89 

sistibly draws that opposite surface within range 
of the said channel. Hence each orb began to 
4 turn on its axis ' simultaneously with its becom- 
ing ' substance ', both results being caused by the 
same forces. As already stated, every creative 
vessel, or c channel ', has two divisions. One of 
them, the one proceeding to the ' double ', has no 
upward current ; therefore, in an orb, the force 
proceeds from only one side, and from the same 
side, of each vessel, and is attracted in one direc- 
tion. If the currents from that opposite surface 
proceeded in equal volume in both directions they 
would prevent rotation.] 

After the third phase of creation was completed, 
a current of force was caused to arise from the 
Light that contained the human outlines. 1 Simul- 
taneously began reflex action of the force in the 
thought-vessels, and also of the current that causes 
breathing. Thus man became a living soul : for 
God had " breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life ". 2 This human life was produced in Eden — 
the third phase. A channel was thus formed 
making possible ' the planting of the garden of 

1 Although pertaining to man before he had fallen from a 
spiritual state, the word 'human' is here used, in distinction 
from angels in the higher phases and from the series of lower 
conscious life. Generally, where the word ' man ' occurs in 
these pages it refers to human, rather than angel, life. An 
exception will he found on page 76. 

2 Genesis, chapter ii. 



90 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

Eden ' ; i. e., it separated the succeeding stratum of 
force which then produced another phase of crea- 
tion, the second. There the human life was placed, 
thus transferring thereto the aforesaid channel 
also. Then the next stratum of force was sepa- 
rated. It formed the first phase, the present world. 
After the human life was placed in the second 
phase 1 a volume of mental force, higher than the 
third degree, overshadowed each brain, holding it 
in " a deep sleep ". Then one of the creative ves- 
sels that proceeded to the body of Adam 2 was 
detached from the grand centre, and, so to speak, 
bent downward. Thereto, proceeded the increase 
of Light containing the highest series of creative 
Thoughts. Each one was held as a germ, until 
Creative force had produced another mystical Body 
— woman, containing 7,001 people, or members : 
each one having a mate, a corresponding member, 
in the mystical Body of man. The highest mem- 
ber was formed from the creative vessel that was 
detached from the grand centre. Hence Eve was 
made from a rib [creative vessel] taken out of 
[the compound channel of] Adam. 

Before the erroneous understanding existed, the 

1 That stratum of force contained the outlines of the series 
of prospective lower conscious life, which were then made 
substance. 

2 Referring also to the highest member in each of the other 
three races. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 1)1 

mind was conscious of the creative Thoughts, of 
which objects are the manifestation, and thus 
perceived the objects as they are, formed and 
sustained by the Spirit of God. But after the 
creation of woman, Eve's 1 first system of thought- 
vessels was detached temporarily from the grand 
centre, and bent downward to this lowest phase of 
life, causing her to behold this stratum of substance, 
but to be oblivious of that which produced it ; for 
through the detached thought-vessels the effect 
would be seen, but the cause ignored. She then 
perceived this phase of creation — even as her 
descendants perceived it — as being separate from 
the Spirit of God. In this world were cast exact 
reflections of those series of conscious life in the 
second phase : when the material cloud arose, those 
reflections were linked to the objects. Through 
the detached thought-vessels Eve first beheld the 
image, or reflection, of herself. The reflection of 
the other members in the mystical Body being 
veiled from her sight she perceived the image 
alone, as self, a principal creation. " For the creat- 
ure was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but 
by reason of him who hath subjected the same in 

1 Meaning the highest raemher of the second mystical Body, 
the memher corresponding to Adam; referring also to the 
highest member, of the same sex, in each of the other races. 
The scriptural names mentioned in this connection refer both 
to the human life upon the planets in the first solar universe, 
and to that upon the planets of each succeeding one. 



92 A NE W BEPA R TURK 

hope " (Romans viii: 20). Finally, her thought- 
vessels pervaded by the discordant understanding 
were replaced in the grand centre, thus communi- 
cating with those of Adam. Mental force reacted 
upon the creative vessels, causing the conflicting 
element to enter therein. 1 From the two highest 
members in each race the mental cloud passed to 
the other people in the mystical Body, obscuring 
their discernment of the cause of visible surround- 
ings. Their first system of thought-vessels, which 
had been held dormant, was then awakened, causing 
each one to behold the lowest phase of creation and 
also his own image, or reflection. Thus the 
Brotherhood was dissolved, and self engraved in 
every heart, they having " changed the glory of 
the uncorruptible God into an image made like to 
corruptible man " (Romans i : 23). Discernment of 
this stratum of creation is called the ' knowledge 
of good and evil ', because as this phase is intended 
for material life, the spiritual Wisdom was to be 
hidden from it (except during later, comparatively 
short epochs) : although the creation was made 
kt good ", 2 discernment of it brought evil, by giving 
rise to a discordant understanding. Then, lest 

1 Simultaneously were awakened the creative Thoughts 
(previously dormant) containing the design of those organs that 
exist only in the material body : thus a manifestation of that 
design was produced. 

2 " And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, 
it was very good." Genesis i : 31. 



^1 NEW DEPARTURE. 93 

they should " take also of the tree of life " 1 — i. e., 
regain knowledge of Truth, their original knowl- 
edge of cause and effect, which, gainsaying the 
erroneous understanding, would have thwarted the 
plan pertaining to materiality, — lest they should 
regain the said knowledge, their second system of 
thought-vessels was held dormant by a higher 
degree of mental force. 2 Their compound channels 
being then wafted within the lowest stratum of 
force they were 'sent forth from the garden of 
Edeir — the second phase of creation — , and entered 
this world. At the same time the series of lower 
conscious life, created in the second phase, were 
transferred to this one, and their creative channels 
pervaded by the conflicting element. 

The number of people, or ' members ', in the mys- 
tical Body of woman being the same as that in the 
grand Body of the other sex, and the members cor- 
responding, in these two groups, every man had 
his own wife. That the human race sprang from 
one man and one woman is a supposition arising 
through ignorance of Truth ; it Avas not the de- 
sign of Infinite wisdom and power. 3 

1 Gen. iii: 22, 23. 

2 Their third system had never been awakened : their origi- 
nal normal state of mind was in the second system. See page 
66, Note 2. 

3 Of course with the followers of Darwin, neither the old 
belief nor the new ideas relative to this subject can have any 
weight. 



94 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

If the erroneous understanding had not been 
forbidden, 1 man could not have known that it was 
contrary to the way of the Lord ; therefore he 
could not have had, after partaking of it, any con- 
sciousness of, nor standpoint for, right and wrong. 
Adam 2 was created in the third phase of life, then 
placed in the second, and "fell" to the first, the 
latter degree being designed for material multipli- 
cation. In this lowest phase, Infinite Wisdom de- 
creed ' death' as a portal to the higher degrees of 
life. The second phase is for purification ; in the 
third is the original state of harmony. As people 
are continually multiplied in the first, and are 
eventually purified in the second, it gives oppor- 
tunity for active circulation of the mental force of 
minds in the higher phases. 

In an aforesaid grand mystical Body the com- 
pound channels proceeding to the people in an}" 

1 In Genesis ii : 16, 17, are the following lines : "And the 
Lord God commanded the man, saying, * * *Of the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it : for in the 
day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die*'' — i. e., the 
spiritual nature should be overpowered ; and, moreover, the 
original human life should, within that first Day, or millenary, 
partake of death in this world, before re-entering the higher 
phase of existence. 

2 The name 'Adam' besides referring to the highest member 
in the mystical Body of the Caucasian race is used, also, to 
designate the entire number created in Eden. The word 'Eve' 
sometimes denotes the fourfold mystical Body of woman, 
created upon the second phase of the planet. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 95 

one of the lower, smaller groups centered at the 
one that passed to the highest member of the 
group. That one, in turn, together with 
those proceeding respectively to the highest mem- 
bers of the other lower groups in the same division, 
centered at the one that passed to the head of the 
division, — the channel that proceeded to the high- 
est member of any but the smallest groups, being, 
as it were, a nucleus, whence sprang the rays, or 
tributary streams, that passed to the highest mem- 
bers, respectively, of the groups belonging to the 
next lower series of divisions. When the erro- 
neous understanding, and the conflicting element, 
pervaded the compound channel of Adam (refer- 
ring also to the corresponding channel in each of 
the other races), it passed thence, through the en- 
tire system of different series of tributaries. Thus, 
" By one man sin entered into the world, and death 
by sin ; and so death passes upon all men, for that 
all have sinned." * The mystical Body was exem- 
plified at the time of Jesus, he being the Head, 
and his followers the so-called ' members of the 
body of Christ '. 2 As Jesus spoke in parables, 
only those that were awakened spiritually could 
understand his meaning : even as he said, " No 
man can come to me, except the Father which hath 
sent me draw him." 3 They that were awakened 

1 Romans v : 12. 2 I Cor. xii : 13-27. 

8 John vi : 44. 



96 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



to discern and love the infinite Wisdom are referred 
to in the Scriptures as the " elect," ' they that were 
to be saved ' ; i. e., purified, in this world, from the 
material nature. 

The second, or fc twin', division of a creative 
channel proceeds to a ' double' which is the orig- 
inal design, or conception, relative to a natural ob- 
ject. (See page 99.) In each twin division pro- 
ceeding to a design, or conception, relative to con- 
scious life in this phase is the creative Thought 
of a reflection, or image, corresponding to the one 
that Eve beheld. 1 A tributary of the compound 
channel is thus held separate, and proceeds to this 
reflection : both channels are affected simulta- 
neously. The expressions thereof, which include 
the conception, or double, are linked together, — 
the " three that bear witness in earth ". 2 They are 
referred to, in the symbolic language of St. John, 
as " the spirit, 3 and the water, and the blood " ; 



1 Refer to page 91. 2 1 John v : 8. 

3 In the Scriptures the word 'spirit' is also used to denote 
the spiritual part of the mind : until one's third system of 
thought-vessels is awakened, that term applies to whatever ex- 
ists of moral excellence in the mind. In the next world, when 
one is given discernment and love of the higher Wisdom, the 
aforesaid spiritual part — by the influx of the Spirit of God 
passing to the receptive faculties — gradually develops, and 
finally pervades the entire mind, or ' soul ' [see page 152, Note 
1], which thus becomes at-one with the Creator and the 
Saviour. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 97 

i.e., (1) the expression of the tributary channel; 
(2) the conception, or double ; and (3) the natural 
body. Eve beheld the image, or reflection, of her- 
self through her first system of thought-vessels, 
her normal state of mind being in the second. 
When her normal state became in the first system, 
she was thus prevented from seeing it. At death 
the twin channel proceeding to the c double ', no 
longer contains the creative Thought of the image 
that is the expression of the tributary channel, 
that expression being designed only for this world ; 
so the tributary channel is no longer held separate 
from the first one, but is engulfed therein. Hence 
in the second phase of life there is only the one 
channel with its twin divisions and the expressions 
thereof, namely, the spiritual body and its always- 
accompanying ' double ' — the design, or conception, 
relative to it. In Job xix : 26, is the following 
verse : " Though after my skin worms destroy this 
body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." The body 
produced in the second phase — and when the per- 
son ascends to a higher one, changed to partake of 
that stratum of creation — is just as real, as tangible, 
to those that are in the same phase of life, as a 
material body is to us. It has spiritual flesh which 
when the thoughts are pure becomes luminous. 
The material body is one house ; the spiritual, 
another: what we call death is merely passing 
from one house to the other, 
7 



98 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

Every person has a guardian angel who is re- 
ferred to in Scripture as ■ Christ,' " the image of 
the invisible God, the first-born of every creature " ; l 
i. e., a spiritual life, an image of the original out- 
line in the grand Nucleus. This angel is created 
either upon the Throne or in the heavenly 
Jerusalem, its place being determined by the de- 
gree of perception given. The person is thus linked 
to the same phase of life and eventually arises 
thereto, ' obtaining by inheritance,' as co-heirs 
Avith Jesus, 2 ' a more excellent Truth than the 
angels,' referring to those created in the fifth 
phase ; for they do not ascend beyond that degree, 
but are " ministering spirits, sent forth to minister 
for them who shall be heirs of salvation ". 3 

Reference in the New Testament to * Christ' 
has a different signification in different places. In 
some cases it alludes only to Jesus ; in others, re- 
spectively, it can be interpreted — (1) Truth, the 
spiritual Wisdom, either in general or in some par- 
ticular degree ; (2) The highest degree of Truth, 
such as was given to Jesus ; (3) Spiritual life, 
either individually or collectively ; and (4) The 
original angel life, created in the seventh phase. 
The distinction in regard to " the Father, the 
World, and the Holy Ghost", is as follows: (1) 



1 Col. i : 13-15. 2 Rom. viii : 17. 

3Heb. i : 4 and 14. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 99 

The Father, — God, the infinite and creative Wis- 
dom and Power; (2) the Word, the Light that 
contains the grand conception, or plan of all things ; 
(3) the Holy Ghost, the Spirit that awakens dis- 
cernment of the infinite Wisdom. 1 Light was with 
the Father in the beginning, and, as intelligence 
developed, the Light contained every thought to 
which Divine Wisdom gave rise. Thus the in- 
crease became the grand conception, according to 
which, and by means of the highest angel life, 
' God made the world.' 2 In the fulness of the 
time, the Light — the Word, was made flesh, and 
named ' Jesus '. 3 He dwelt among men, in order 
' to declare the Father's truth unto them '. 4 
Mental force from the Most High passed downward 
to his brain, giving him complete, and the highest, 
discernment of the grand conception and of the 
Creative Wisdom whence it sprang. Hence, " In 
him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily." Col. ii : 9. 

The original Nucleus of spiritual force contained 
the design, or conception, of every object that was 
to be formed in a phase of creation. To each con- 
ception, the Spirit of God, the Creative force, pro- 

1 Perception of any one of the several degrees of Spiritual 
thought is also called ' the Holy Ghost'. 

2 Heb. i: 2. The highest angel life— the original, mystical 
Body of Christ — was the means by which, increase of Creative 
force was separated from the original stratum. See page 70. 

3 John i: 14. 4 Heb. ii: 12, 



100 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

ceeded and produced a likeness of the design : 
the two were wafted downward from the Nucleus. 
When a phase of creation was complete, cur- 
rents of force were caused to arise therefrom. 
From the point where the force that produced a 
solar universe passed downward, away from the 
beginning of the next higher stratum, 1 the creative 
channels of the orbs proceed in a grand channel to 
the central sun ; thence to their respective primary 
suns, then to the primary planets 2 in a solar system, 
and from these planets to their respective satellites. 
The channels belonging to the conscious life in 
each of the three lower phases pass downward 
through the beginning of their own stratum of 
force, but thence proceed directly to their ter- 
minus. The compound channels of the human 
life created upon the third phase of the planets 
formed, at the beginning of the third stratum, the 
necessary means for separating the second stratum 
of creative Light. That force then produced a 
second phase of creation to every orb in the solar 
universe. When the aforesaid life was placed 
upon the second phase of the planets, the next 
stratum of force was separated. It formed the so- 
called ' first ' phase of every orb. In the next de- 

1 This order was followed, respectively, in each of the three 
lower strata of force. The so-called ' beginning ' of a lower 
stratum of force is where it has become separated from, and 
branches away from, the beginning of the next higher one. 

2 An exception to this rule is referred to on page 121, Note 1. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 101 

gree of life we shall see the second phase of the 
sun, moon, and stars, as well as of the earth ; and in 
the third degree (Eden), the original one. 1 When 
the conflicting element entered the creative chan- 
nels of man, which were then wafted within the 
lowest phase of life, 2 it arose — from the multitudes 
of planets inhabited — to the beginning of this 
lowest stratum of force. From that point it could 
ascend no further, being obstructed by a higher, 
unalloyed stratum ; so it then reacted upon the 
grand channel, and, entering every creative chan- 
nel included therein, pervaded the first phase 
of every orb in the solar universe. The reflex 
action of the life-giving currents that pass through 
the creative channels of conscious life causes the 



1 The second and third phases of the sun are enveloped hy a 
volume of spiritual light, not caused by fire. 

2 A certain current arising through creative channels in the 
animal kingdom is not stopped at the grand centre. In every 
other phase of creation except this one it returns to the 
highest Source without being intercepted, and the force always 
remains as light. In this world, being tainted by the conflict- 
ing element, it cannot enter a higher, unalloyed stratum ; so 
the current is there stopped in its upward course, and the ter- 
minus of the force becomes liquids, which therefore do not ex- 
ist in a spiritual body. In order that Creative force shall be 
manifest as either solids or liquids, currents of the force must 
ascend (by reflex action) and then be stopped in their upward 
course by a higher force. Refer to page 68. The currents 
that are stopped at the grand centre, afterward resume their 
course. 



1 02 A NE W DEPA R TURK 

conflicting element l which pervades that force in 
this world, continuously to arise to the beginning 
of the grand channel. It then, as continuously, 
passes to the first phase of the solar orbs. Of the 
force that passes through creative channels to its 
terminus, currents are thence attracted toward its 
source, causing reflex action. According to this 
* understanding ', force before having expression 
perceptible to our senses acts instantaneously, 
canying the impure element which in this world 
pervades it. The active, life-giving currents pass 
unceasingly downward through the grand channel, 
on their way to the centre of the inhabited planets. 
These currents do not affect the conflicting element 
until they reach that centre : there, the said ele- 
ment has expression as gas. 

The gas caused by the portion of the impure 
element that passes through the channel belonging 
to the central sun arises to the surface of the orb. 
A volume of active force, outside of that sun's 
creative channel and having irresistible power to 
destroy that which is of a conflicting nature, rushes 
downward upon the gas and burns it. The force 
by its action upon the impure gas generates heat 

1 In the compound channels of human life this element is 
continuously generated by the existence, in our mental organ- 
ization, of an inherent state originally caused by an erroneous 
belief, and directly contrary to the Spirit of God. Refer to 
page 61, Note 2. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 103 

and material light. At each primary sun this 
action is repeated. 

The element proceeding to uninhabited planets 
is devoid of power either to cause growth or to 
burn the impure gas. That gas arising from these 
orbs meets the so-called * passive ' element which 
surrounds them ; being not overpowered by this 
element, the gas is then swept through the creative 
channel, by the irresistible current that pervades 
it, to the sun and is there met by the active force 
which burns it. The impure gas from a primary 
sun, and the variable and comparatively small 
amount arising thereto from planets that are in- 
habited, 1 would not at all obstruct and temper (so 
as to insure material action,) the great volume of 
Spiritual force constantly passing to the sun, out- 
side of the creative channel. Hence in each solar 
system a large number, three-fourths, of the planets 
are uninhabited. Outside of its creative channel 
a planet is surrounded by the same quality of force 
as that wdiich passes through the channel. Were 
it not modified before reaching the orbs, the 
active force surrounding planets that are inhabited 
would envelop them in flames. To shield such 
planets from this power, water covering nearly 
three-fourths of the surface of each one contains 
a substance (salt) from which continuously arises 
a modified force partaking sufficiently of the 
1 See page 115. 



104 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

nature of the active currents not to be overpowered 
by them. This force proceeds to the grand centre, 
and, at about that distance from the surface, en- 
velops the orb ; l passing downward through it, 
the active currents are modified and become ox- 
ygen : when much intensified, by conflict with the 
impure gas contained in the air, they produce 
atmospheric electricity. When solids are either 
burned or dissolved by other means, the conflicting 
element which pervaded them is released and has 
expression in carbonic acid gas, where it is so 
diluted with oxygen as to be non-inflammable. 2 
Oxygen consumes solids b} r separating the conflict- 
ing element which pervades them. Nitrogen is 
an expression of a passive element, 3 without which, 
oxygen by its perpetual action upon alloyed 
substance would be so intensified as to become un- 
modified and thus cause fire. Above the grand 
centre the active force surrounding the earth, is 
wholly unmodified and untempered, and is a strong 
electric current. 

Although, outside of the creative channel, active 
force proceeds to a sun, the currents that pass 

1 The said constantly-renewed force constitutes the highest 
portion of the atmosphere. 

2 The impure gas is less diluted in carbonous oxide. 

3 In an allusion (page 103) to the element that proceeds to 
uninhabited planets, the word 'passive ' signifies not that the 
expression of the element is nitrogen, hut merely that the cur- 
rents are powerless to cause either growth or fire. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 105 

through the channel are passive in quality. Con- 
sequently, gas generated by the conflicting ele- 
ment and arising from the centre of the orb meets 
with no opposition until it reaches the surface 
thereof. Thus its whole volume remains to aid in 
producing external light and heat. The force 
arising from salt water cannot be overpowered or 
burned. That portion of the currents passing to 
the sun from the planets that are inhabited * causes 
dark places in the midst of the burning gases 
which envelop the orb. The concentrated volume 
of active force which passes from these places is, 
even although somewhat modified there, a very 
strong electric current, 2 unobstructed by the im- 
pure gas. The modified force, from salt water, 
arising from planets that are inhabited envelops 
the impure gas contained in currents passing to 
the sun from the planet ; that gas is thus protected 
from the unmodified currents which it meets above 
the atmosphere. On reaching the sun, the impure 
gas becomes separated from the pure force and is 
burned. The gas while passing to the sun from 
uninhabited planets and from satellites is envel- 
oped, and thus protected, by the passive element. 

1 Currents from sundry other planets contain this force. 
See pages 118-9. 

2 When a volume of this untempered force passes from the 
sun to orbs in the solar system, it causes in their atmosphere 
electrical disturbance, and light of more or less brilliancy. 



106 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

The force that passes to the sun from orbs in the 
solar system contains, pervaded by the impure gas, 
currents from such mineral substances as exist in 
those orbs. Of the force arising from solids and 
from water, one portion stopped at the grand cen- 
tre and afterward resuming its course, — this one 
portion together with the force that overshadows a 
creation causes c substance ' ; another portion has 
expression, at the orb, as vapors or as gases, as the 
case may be. 

A sun forms a barrier to the Spiritual force, 
interposing a volume of impure gas to be burned* 
before the force can proceed to the planets ; it is 
thus tempered to the material state, and is then 
modified in passing through, respectively, the 
highest portion of the atmosphere surrounding 
orbs that are inhabited, and the passive element 
that envelops other planets. 

Active force constantly passes through the earth 
from the creative channel. This force is unaf- 
fected by the atmosphere, which modifies only that 
surrounding the surface and that proceeding from 
the sun. Hence the interior of the earth is the 
scene of a conflict between two elements. The 
one, there burns gas generated by the other, and 
thus becomes tempered to the material state. 
Then arising through underground water, active 
force is modified thereby. Thus, before reaching 
vegetation, it assumes much the same character as 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 107 

that which proceeds from the sun. The slow but 
irresistible power of ' Nature ' is the working of 
the somewhat obstructed and consequently limited 
Spirit of God. " Things which are seen were not 
made of things which do appear " : * they are 
u made " of the invisible creative force. It per- 
vades the light from the sun, and is contained in 
the current arising from the centre of the earth ; 
by the vital force in these two currents, creative 
Thoughts (embryos contained in seeds) are grad- 
ually developed. 

Conscious life depends upon receiving, through 
a compound channel, a proportion of the vital 
force. The latter generates heat by its action 
upon that which contains the conflicting element. 
Were it not for this element, Spiritual force would 
be unobstructed and untempered and would stop 
material action in the body. 2 Hence, material 
life depends upon the tempered force, — heat. In 
this world, that the active force flowing downward 



1 Hebrews xi : 3. ' Through spiritual perception we under- 
stand that the worlds were framed by the Light [the creative 
force] of God.' 

2 That is, in this world unobstructed Spiritual force passing 
through a compound channel would cause death unless a par- 
ticular degree of spiritual discernment were awakened (as it 
was at the time of Jesus), opening the way to force belonging 
to a higher stratum ; or unless the conflicting element were 
temporarily held dormant by a patient's " faith " in the power 
of the Lord, as was the case in miraculous healing of old. 



108 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

in the creative channels of conscious life shall not 
cause fire in the body, it is first modified in passing 
through the beginning of this stratum of Spirit, 
and is somewhat obstructed by the conflicting 
element there and by that in the compound chan- 
nel. It is then in a state to generate only heat by 
its conflict with, which causes action upon, the 
impure element in the bod}-. The tempered force, 
in order that it shall not then become too inten- 
sified, is modified by the liquids and the nitrogen 
of the body. 

According to this ' understanding' : — 

When there is concentrated action of the untem- 
pered force upon a volume of gas generated b} T the 
conflicting element and contained in the currents 
passing from the earth to the grand centre, it 
causes the aurora borealis. 

The force from salt water proceeds, in horizontal 
courses, to the grand centre from the two opposite 
halves of the globe. Salt water is thereby irre- 
sistibly drawn, and high tides are thus caused 
simultaneously at opposite parts of the earth. 
Moreover, the force responds to the attraction 
offered by that which proceeds from the sun and 
from the moon : these bodies thus govern the 
action of the tides. 

In the early ages, before the Flood — (1) A greater 
volume of active force passed through the earth's 
creative channel, causing the internal fire to in- 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



109 



crease and to extend toward the surface of the 
orb. (2) The un tempered currents outside of the 
said channel had not much volume, and so did not 
greatly reduce the heat from the sun. (3) In many 
uninhabited parts of the land, the underground 
water was nearly at the surface, and Avas some- 
what heated by the fire which then was not far 
below it. 

From the time of the Flood until population had 
greatly increased, the amount of the conflicting 
element generated was small. Consequently the 
amount of the impure gas passing to the centre of 
the earth, and to the sun from uninhabited orbs, 
was very much reduced, and thus heat in the earth 
and that which proceeded from the sun was greatly 
diminished. Hence the glacial period began at 
the time of the Flood. At all the inhabited planets 
the same general plan is carried out. The amount 
of the conflicting element was thus, at the afore- 
said time, reduced universally, — in the grand 
channel [see pages 101-2] and therefore in all the 
orbs of our solar universe. 

At the present time, in places where the conflict 
between the active force and the impure gas takes 
place not far below the underground water, the 
latter is heated and oftentimes is forced to the 
surface of the earth. When a greatly increased 
volume of active force passes to the centre of the 
globe, through the creative channel, it may after- 



110 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

ward find vent in volcanic eruption. Sometimes a 
current of the element that is passive in quality 
rushes through the orb and causes an earthquake. 1 
The primary sun typifies the infinite Wisdom ; 
the moon, the conception relative to the earth : 
stars typify the Thoughts that proceed from that 
Wisdom. The grand Conception is comprised in 
twelve principal Truths. They are referred to, 
in the symbolic language of Revelation, as a crown 
of twelve stars; and again, as the twelve precious 
stones that 'garnish the foundations of the wall in 
the holy city '. Seven of them relate to the seven 
4 series ', 2 and to the plan to be fulfilled relative to 
human life and to angels ; one, includes knowl- 
edge of the purposes for which water was created. 
The other four are represented by the four systems 
of thought-vessels that proceed to the brain. The 
third and first systems are those through which 
the higher and lower phases of life can be dis- 
cerned: the Truths thus represented relate to the 
seven phases of creation. Those represented by 
the fourth and second systems include knowledge 
of that which pertains to objects and their double ; 
as, (1) the cause of ' substance ', and the uses of 
the currents of force arising therefrom ; (2) the 

1 An earthquake may result also from the escape of an 
increased volume of active force that has been modified in 
arising through the underground water, 

2 See page 51, 



A NEW DEPARTURE. Ill 

second quality of light, and the cause of the 
resistance of solids to the attraction offered by 
Creative force. 1 The twelve Truths are referred 
to, also, as fruits borne by the Tree of Life ; the 
leaves from that Tree — i.e., thoughts from the 
infinite Wisdom — are for healing and purifying 
the nations. Rev. xxii : 2 

Medicines that induce sleep contain force that 
is of a higher degree than the material state of 
mind. This force holds dormant the mental cur- 
rents, and, tending to suspend material action, 
may cause death. Intoxicants, partaking somewhat 
of this higher degree of force, may first have a 
stimulating effect. The suppositions of man have 
sometimes enveloped an otherwise harmless species 
of growth, with such belief in its injurious quali- 
ties that when taken into the system it produces 
the expected result. When, in a succeeding 
generation, the belief is forgotten, the article be- 
comes harmless. But that which contains an 
amount of either the active force or the passive 
element, or of the impure, that greatly exceeds 
the normal proportion in the body, produces a 
result not caused by man's opinion and conse- 
quently not governed thereby. When the con- 
flicting element entered this phase of creation, 
divers species in the series of lower conscious life 

1 Refer to page 56, Note 3 ; and page 88, Note 3. 



112 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

were permitted to become changed from their 
original form, the creative Thoughts pertaining to 
sundry members of the body being held dormant, 
and therefore having no manifestation. Serpents, 
worms, and many species of insects were thus 
changed. Some species of animals are governed 
by the discordant element which makes them 
ferocious. When, during the first century of the 
third epoch of Light, knowledge and love of the 
infinite Wisdom shall have become universal, — 
binding the Brotherhood together ; in the same 
mind and in the same judgment,' — conscious mental 
discord shall be dispelled, and the savage nature 
of animals held dormant. Then ' the calf and the 
lion shall lie down together, and a little child shall 
lead them '. 

The plan already referred to x is as follows : A 
solar universe (a complete solar creation) contains, 
besides its central sun, gaseous nebulse, comets and 
meteors, — besides these, it contains seven thousand 
systems of planets, each system having a primary 
sun in its centre. 2 A grand creative channel pro- 
ceeds to the surface of a vertical section of a 
primary sun ; from there, the channels belonging 

1 See page 77. 

2 All the systems are formed according to the same plan. 
Force passes through a sun to the planets that are opposite to 
the grand channel, even as if the intervening substance did not 
exist. The currents proceeding from these planets stop when 
they reach the nearest part of the sun. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 113 

to the planets proceed horizontally. Through 
them, were produced seven thousand and fifty-six 
primary planets (a grand group) in each quarter 
of a circle. The fifty-six added to the seven thou- 
sand, in order to have a like number in each row, 
are ignored in general statements ; for, not repre- 
senting angels 1 in the sixth phase of life, they were 
not held entire. Each one was separated into 
many minor planets, or asteroids. 

In a solar system the two grand groups created 
opposite to each other are called twin groups. 
The primary twin groups are those beginning 
nearest their sun. The smallest division in a 
grand group is a row of twelve planets. 2 In the 
primary twin groups, each of the first seven rows 
is succeeded by a space which is of the same width 
as that occupied by the row. These spaces form 
circling paths around the sun. The revolving 
rows of a primary grand group are in, respectively, 
the circling paths formed by the spaces of the twin 
group. The seven rows aforesaid — which follow 
the plane of the ecliptic, always comparatively 
speaking — form a secondary division. The eighty- 
four planets composing it revolve around the sun. 
The planets nearest the sun belong to the first 
primary grand group. In the twin group, at the 
terminus of the space that succeeds the seventh 

1 Refer to page 83. 

2 These details refer to primary planets. 



114 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

row begins a group of fixed planets, 1 that is, they 
always occupy the same place in the system. 
These orbs are arranged in secondary divisions 
which are parallel to one another. Each division 
contains a row of twelve planets which follow the 
plane of the ecliptic, and six repetitions of that 
row, three above the said plane, and three below 
it. Between planets that extend above and below 
this plane, and also between secondary divisions 
composed of fixed orbs, there is the same distance 
as between planets belonging to a row. There are 
eleven of these secondary divisions, the twelfth 
being formed by the eighty-four planets that re- 
volve around the sun: these twelve constitute the 
first primary division of the grand group. A 
primary division is succeeded by a circling space 
around the sun. The space is of the same width 
as that occupied by a row of revolving planets. 
There are six primary divisions composed of fixed 
planets. Each division contains twelve secondary 
groups parallel to one another ; and each of these 
groups has eighty-four planets, arranged in the 
order already stated. The seven primary divi- 
sions — the first one includes the revolving orbs — 
form a grand group, which contains seven thousand 
and fifty-six' planets. (In the first primary grand 
group, beyond the space through which passes the 

1 Exceptions in every row of fixed planets are referred to on 
page 121. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 115 

seventh row of the twin group, a second space, of 
equal width, is reserved, before the so-called 
'stationary ' divisions begin. The arrangement of 
the planets in these divisions is the same in both 
grand groups ; and in twin groups the correspond- 
ing primary divisions of fixed orbs occupy opposite 
parts of the same circling path. The creative 
channels passing from a solar body to such orbs, or 
to such systems, as revolve around it, have at that 
source the motion which causes their terminus — 
either the orbs or the systems as a whole — to revolve 
around the body whence the channels proceed. 
Fixed orbs are held so by having stationary chan- 
nels. Of the force which causes dark spots at the 
sun [see page 105], that arising through the crea- 
tive channels of fixed planets would cause those 
spots to be stationary, were it not for the sun's 
rotation ; the force arising through revolving 
channels causes spots which have motion independ- 
ent of the sun's rotation. Pervaded by the im- 
pure gas, currents of force arising, through creative 
channels, from inhabited planets — and from sundry 
others, mentioned on page 118 — are, before reaching 
the sun, more or less dissipated by force that passes 
downward upon them. This force is caused to 
decrease gradually and then to increase gradually 
during regularly recurrent periods, so that there 
shall not be a too constant electrical disturbance 
by untempered currents from the sun.) 



116 A NEW DEPA R TUBE. 

The second primary grand group, already re- 
ferred to, was formed on the opposite side of the 
sun from the twin group. It begins with a revolv- 
ing row in the circling path formed by the space 
that succeeds the first row of planets belonging 
to the first primary grand group. The revolving 
rows of the second grand group, upon reaching 
the opposite part of the system, pass through the 
spaces respectively that are between the rows of 
the twin group ; thus the seventh row passes 
through the space that succeeds the last row of 
revolving planets belonging to the first primary 
grand group. The first row of the first primary 
group upon reaching the opposite part of the 
system passes through the space that precedes the 
twin group ; consequently the seventh, passes 
through that which precedes the seventh row of 
the twin group. 

The secondary twin groups begin with a revolv- 
ing row in the circling path formed by the space 
that succeeds the last row of revolving planets 
belonging to the second primary grand group. 
Each secondary grand group has seven primary 
divisions in, respectively, the circling paths of the 
corresponding ones in the primary twin groups. 
Each of the aforesaid divisions lacks a row of 
twelve planets which were produced in, and revolve 
through, the space that is next to the division. 
Thus there are eighty-four revolving planets in each 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 117 

of the two secondary groups. The other planets are 
fixed : they are arranged in the same order as those 
in the primary groups. In the twin revolving rows 
of the secondary grand groups the two correspond- 
ing planets have the same orbit ; but traveling in 
the same direction and at an equal rate of speed, 
they are always in opposite parts of the sj^stem. 
The first revolving row of each of the two sec- 
ondary grand groups passes around the sun in the 
circling space that succeeds the seventh row of the 
second primary grand group. Hence, upon reaching 
the opposite part of the system, it passes through 
the space mentioned 1 as being reserved in the 
first primary grand group, beyond that through 
which passes the seventh row of the twin group. 

Among the primary planets in a solar system 
seven thousand are inhabited, one-fourth the 
number — namely, 1,750 — being in each grand 
group. This number is divided equally among 
the seven primary divisions of the group. Hence 
in each of these divisions are 250. One-twelfth 
of that number is in each of the twelve secondary 
divisions : 250 -f- 12 = 20 l|. There are as many 
in each of the seven rows composing a secondary 
division, as seven is contained in twenty (the 
fraction being here omitted), even 2 & ; that is, in 
each of two secondaiy divisions, six of the seven 
rows have three planets inhabited : the other row 

1 See pages 114-5. 



118 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

has but two. Ten of the twelve secondary divi- 
sions have three planets inhabited in each of the 
seven rows, making the ten-twelfths that remain 
in a secondary division. Thus in these ten divi- 
sions are 210 planets that are inhabited. This 
number added to the forty that are in the other 
two divisions makes the 250 which are in a pri- 
mary division. In the seven primary divisions 
are 1,750, the number contained in a grand group ; 
and this number in each of the four grand groups 
makes the seven thousand contained in a solar 
system. 

When the element that proceeds to uninhabited 
planets meets the mainly undiluted impure gas 
that arises from them, the action of the said element 
upon this gas generates light, less bright than that 
which the orbs reflect from the sun, 1 and varying 
at different ones according to the quality of the cur- 
rents which cause it. The fraction ' six-sevenths' 
which remains to one row in each of two second- 
ary divisions is expressed upon one planet be- 
longing to the row. Of six-sevenths of that por- 
tion of the surface which upon an inhabited orb 
would be covered with salt water, in order to pro- 
duce the force that, in the upper atmosphere, 
modifies active currents, — of six-sevenths of that 

1 Nor is tins light as bright as that caused by currents of un- 
tempered force which at times pass from the sun to orbs in the 
solar system. Refer to page 105, Note 2. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 119 

portion of the surface, some parts are composed of 
salt : the rest is covered with salt water. Through 
such parts as are composed of salt, the impure gas 
caunot arise. 1 Hence light does not proceed from 
those portions of the planet. Moreover, to the orb 
passes, outside of the creative channel, a certain 
proportion of force lacking only one-seventh of 
the quality that, unmodified, causes fire. Where 
they meet the impure gas these currents generate a 
brighter light than would a less active quality of 
force. 2 The fraction ' ten-twelfths ' remaining to 
a secondary division is expressed in like manner 
upon two of the planets thereof. In a revolving 
division, deviations from the general order are ex- 
pressed in the row nearest the primary sun. 

In each grand group were fifty-six primary 
planets that did not belong to the legitimate num- 
ber, and so were separated into asteroids. The 
aforesaid number (fifty-six) was divided equally 
among the seven primary divisions of a grand 
group. In the solar s}^stem of which our Sun 
is the centre, of the first interior row of twelve 
primary planets, counting one that was sepa- 
rated into asteroids, Neptune is either the ninth 
or the tenth, according to whether there is 

1 It escapes through some other section. 

2 Of currents passing to orbs, there are various qualities, 
ranging from the most passive element, to the most active 
force : the latter is referred to on page 198, Note 4. 



120 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

one between Mercury and the Sun. In this row, 
one of the planets beyond Neptune is inhabited. * 

In the design of a solar system every primary 
planet had two satellites, representing respectively 
the grand Conception of all things, and the con- 
ception relative to the planet. In the creation, 
many of these satellites were placed erraticallv. 
Twenty-four, allowing two for each primary 
planet, were produced within the limit of each 
row, but sundry planets have none ; some have 
only one ; and a few have others besides their 
own. The two satellites belonging to the planet 
that was separated into asteroids were divided 
into many tinj^ stars which were given to, and 
revolve around, the planet Saturn. Counting the 
two aforesaid satellites, and the eight moons re- 
volving around Saturn, the five given to Jupiter 
and the four to Uranus, the two belonging to 
Mars, the one revolving around Neptune, and our 
own moon, it makes twenty-three. The distant 
planet that is inhabited has a moon, which com- 
pletes the number — twent}^-four. In each solar 

1 In the row that is nearest a primary sun, there are — as 
deviations from the general order — asteroids (and the rings, 
given to a major planet) ; only two orbs inhabited ; and three 
to which proceed, outside of the creative channel, a proportion 
of force nearly as active in quality as that which passes to the 
Earth. Of these three orbs one represents the fraction one- 
seventh, and the other two the two-twelfths, already alluded 
to. 






A NEW DEPARTURE. 121 

system, every inhabited planet excepting the one 
nearest the primary sun revolves, with its satel- 
ite, around a secondary sun. 1 That sun occupies 
the position which would otherwise belong to a 
primary planet, and the planet occupies that of a 
satellite. In a revolving row, a secondary sun 
passes, with its planet, around the primary sun. 
Unmodified active force envelops a secondary 
sun in flames, burning the impure gas which arises 
from the orb, and also that which passes to it from 
the satellite. 2 This gas is sufficient to temper the 
comparatively small volume of force that proceeds 
to a secondary sun, outside of the creative channel. 
The plan explained regarding the order of the 
primary planets in a solar system was followed 
first in the arrangement of the heavenly bodies 
that surround the central sun. Seven thousand 
of these bodies are in each of the four grand 
groups ; 1,750 in each group are primary suns, 

1 The creative channel belonging to a planet that revolves 
around a secondary sun, passes from the primary sun to the 
secondary one and thence to the planet. 

2 The currents passing from the inhabited planet are con- 
stantly dissipated before reaching the secondary sun, as they 
would otherwise cause dark spots there, with the result that 
the concentrated volume of unobstructed force therefrom 
would — the source being so comparatively near — produce in 
the planet's atmosphere a too pronounced electrical disturb- 
ance. On its way to a sun, gas proceeding to a planet from a 
satellite is swept onward, without having passed through the 
planet's atmosphere. 



12-2 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

and each of these suns has a system of planets. 
The remaining number (taking each one as a 
whole) are respectively the gaseous nebulas and 
comets. 1 In each grand group were fifty-six orbs 
that did not belong to the legitimate number: 
each one was separated into myriads of meteors. 
In the primary twin groups the first interior 
secondary division is composed of eighty-four 
bodies which revolve around the central sun ; 
twenty among them are suns, two being in the 
first row, and three in each of the other six rows. 
In the secondary grand groups one row from each 
primary division revolves around the central sun, 2 
through the space that is next to the division. 
The fixed suns have the same number of revolv- 
ing planets as the revolving suns have. The frac- 
tion ' six-sevenths ' remaining to certain rows is 
expressed in one comet, or in one of the gaseous 
nebulas, 3 belonging to the row. Of the nucleus 

1 Comets belong to revolving rows ; the true gaseous neb- 
ulae, to stationary ones. The original orbit of a comet is 
around the central sun. Such orbits may have become 
changed by reason of attraction offered the comets by a pri- 
mary sun. 

2 As already slated (see page 100), the creative channels of 
all the orbs in a solar system pass together from the central 
sun to a primary one. In a revolving system the motion of 
these channels causes the entire system including revolving 
rows and the so-called 'stationary' divisions to revolve, as a 
whole, around the central sun. Refer to page 115. 

3 According to whether the row is a revolving one or station- 
ary. 



A NEW DEPARTUHE. 123 

(the part that represents a primary sun), six- 
sevenths is ' substance ' ; i. e., is not gaseous. 
Moreover, one stream of the force which passes to 
it lacks only one-seventh of the quality that would 
cause fire : light increases in brilliancy in propor- 
tion to the active quality of the force that gener- 
ates it. The fraction 4 ten-twelfths ' remaining to 
a secondary division is expressed, in like manner, 
in two of the bodies belonging to the division. 



124 A NEW DEPARTURE. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE BIRTH, RESURRECTION, AND SECOND COMING 
OF JESUS. 

From the grand, original Nucleus — the fountain 
of life, Above — ,Creative force passes across the 
beginning of the compound channels that proceed 
to the angels of parents, and produces the guardian 
angel of the child. Across the beginning of the 
compound channel of this angel proceeds a dupli- 
cate channel which passes downward, through those 
of the parents. 1 In this world after the creative 
Thought has been awakened, the conception, or 
design, of a body is registered in the cerebellum 
of the woman's brain. Then, Creative force passes 
downward, in the aforesaid duplicate channel, from 

1 From the time of the conception until the birth of the child, 
the compound channels of the parents are included in the same 
space, from their source— the original Nucleus— to a point above 
the grand centre of this phase of creation; although if a father 
dies before the birth of the child, the compound channel of 
the former is separated before reaching the beginning of the 
lowest stratum of force. Refer to page 100, Note 1 . After pass- 
ing above the grand centre, currents of force from the entire 
compound channel arise to the beginning of their own stratum. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 125 

the original Nucleus : proceeding, upon reaching 
the woman's brain, through the conception, or 
design, according to which the body is formed, the 
force, aided by that in her system, gradually pro- 
duces a likeness of the design. At birth the dupli- 
cate channel proceeds downward separately to the 
child, who is linked to the guardian angel and 
eventually attains a like purity. 1 The compound 
channel proceeding downward to the brain, from 
the grand Nucleus, passes through the beginning 
of each intervening stratum of force. Hence, 
people in each phase are affected by the mental 
currents of succeeding degrees of life. Referring 
to the cloud of error in the second phase St. Paul 
says, that, among other things, we wrestle against 
spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 
vi:12. 

The creative channel that proceeds to a child, 
having mingled with those of the parents, partakes 
more or less of both the mental and the physical 
force that pervades the latter channels. This force 
can thus be transmitted to succeeding generations. 
Sometimes an irregularity from a creative vessel 
of a parent, although pervading the corresponding 
one of the child, remains dormant and so is not 
manifested ; but in a succeeding transmission it 
becomes active, and then causes the same expres- 
sion as it did in a preceding generation. 
1 Refer to page 98. 



126 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

In a child, intelligence depends upon a dissimi- 
larity in the two streams of mental force which 
proceed through each conscious primary thought- 
vessel, — one stream representing the Creative Wis- 
dom ; the other, the Conception that sprang there- 
from. In the absence of spiritual knowledge, one 
partakes of the father's individuality; the other, 
of the mother's. This difference gives rise to 
an active, inquiring state of mind, which attracts 
mental currents. Sometimes when the channels 
of parents partake of the same quality of mental 
force (as do those belonging to branches of one 
family), and have not a strong individuality, the 
dissimilarity is lacking in the child. Then his 
secondary system of thought-vessels is the only one 
awakened ; * therefore, although conscious, he is 
not intelligent. In the next phase of life his sec- 
ond system of thought-vessels is awakened, through 
which he discerns the cause of external surround- 
ings, even the Creative force and the conception, 
or design, according to which objects are formed. 
Knowledge of cause and effect gives rise to active 
thought and thereby to intelligence. Then, 
through the third system, a higher degree of Wis- 
dom is gradually discerned. After death, idiots — - 
and also babes — are saved remorse for sin, and 

1 In extreme cases of idiocy, even the secondary system is 
nearly dormant, the mental force therein having not its nor- 
mal reflex action. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 127 

become ministers of purity and Truth, to people 
in the second phase of life whose material intelli- 
gence contains much that cannot enter the king- 
dom of God. 

A decided point in this doctrine is, that Mary's 
conception of Jesus was not according to natural 
laws, but was solely by the power of the Infinite. 
In other words her third system of thought-vessels 
was awakened for the time being, giving her 
spiritual perception of the power of Gocl. This 
discernment dispelled the material cloud sufficiently 
to allow the vital, conceptive force to pass from 
the original Nucleus down through her compound 
channel and awaken the creative Thought, causing 
the conception, or design, of a body to be regis- 
tered in the cerebellum of her brain. Then, Crea- 
tive force, passing in a compound channel, gradually 
formed a likeness of the design. We say that God 
is all-powerful, but we perhaps deny that He could 
have triumphed over a law of nature. Yet we 
must admit that the creation of Adam proved the 
Spirit of the Creator to have the elements, the con- 
ceptive and creative forces, for producing life. 
The Virgin Mary was overshadowed by the power 
of the Highest ; therefore that which was born of 
her is called the Son of God. (Luke i : 35.) In the 
compound channel that proceeded to the babe — 
Jesus, the section of each primary thought-vessel 
that in an ordinary conception would have received 



128 A NEW DEPAIiTUEE. 

of an earthly father's nature was pervaded by the 
Wisdom of God, thus giving Jesus perception of 
the love and truth of his Heavenly Father : by that 
Power he was finally enabled to overcome the 
material nature which (entering from the channel 
of Mary) had pervaded the other section of those 
thought-vessels. He then became at-one with 
God. Jesus partook of the material nature that 
he might be made manifest to the world and that 
he might, by overcoming that nature, i break down 
the middle wall of partition,' and by destroying 
the earthy, open the way to the Heavenly. Of the 
two natures, the one — the natural mind — pervad- 
ing the first system of thought-vessels ; and the 
other, the spiritual nature, awakened and devel- 
oped in the third system, — of these two natures 
Jesus made one, 1 'having abolished in his percep- 
tion the enmity, even the law of commandments 
contained in material ordinances ; for to make in 
himself of twain one new man, so making peace ; 
and that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
perception through the spiritual Understanding, 
having thereby slain the enmity.' Eph ii : 15, 16 ; 
see also Col. ii : 14. 

As Jesus was given the highest degree of spirit- 
ual discernment, the same fulness of Light passed 
to him as to the Father. He said, " As the Father 
hath life in himself ; so hath he given to the Son 
1 Refer to page 62. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 129 

to have life in himself," — but not of himself, for 
the life of Jesus sprang from, and could not exist 
without, God. The power that Jesus made mani- 
fest was from Above ; even as he declared : " The 
Father [the Spirit, or Light] that dwelleth in me, 
he doeth the works." x The writings of the four 
Apostles abound in references which Jesus made 
to that Power, to whom he gave all honor and 
glory, ever striving to impress upon his hearers 
that he was but the Son, sent and governed by the 
Heavenly Father ; and that the doctrine which he 
taught was not his, 2 but that 'the Lord had anoint- 
ed him to preach the gospel to the poor ; and had 
sent him to heal the broken-hearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of 
sight to the blind '. 3 When the people would have 
slain him, before the period of his ministry had 
been fulfilled, " he passing through the midst of 
them went his way." In other words, he was tem- 
porarily given a particular degree of spiritual 
discernment which held dormant, in the compound 
channel and in the body, that which is contrary to 
God, and opened the way to force belonging to 
a higher stratum. That force pervaded his body, 
causing it to partake of the corresponding phase 
of substance. Then, any other phase of creation 
offered no resistance to him. 4 An expression of 

1 John xiv :10. 2 John vii : 16, 17. 

8 Luke iv: 18. 4 See page 63, Note 1. 

9 



130 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

force belonging to a higher stratum can be seen 
only with spiritual sight ; consequently when Jesus 
was thus changed he became invisible. When the 
higher decree of force receded, the material cloud 
again intervened and the natural condition of the 
body was resumed. 

[When, in an earlier age, three Jews were cast 
into a furnace, 1 the higher force caused their bodies 
to partake temporarily of another phase of creation. 
Then, material elements had no more power over 
them than as if they (the elements) had never 
existed. Spiritual sight was awakened in Nebu- 
chadnezzar enabling him to see the three men, and 
also the angel who was sent to hold them firm in 
the degree of spiritual discernment that opens an 
unobstructed way to force belonging to a higher 
stratum. He that beheld the man " walking in 
the midst of the fire " had no means of knowing 
that their bodies had become expressions of a dif- 
ferent stratum of force, and were consequently 
unaffected by material elements. When the men 
came forth from the furnace the higher degree of 
force receded, and they were again governed by 
material laws and visible to material sight.] 

Jesus' death was the supreme and crowning 

sacrifice of self. It completed the overpowering of 

that which is contrary to God, in the mind of Jesus 

and finally, through him, in the minds of his fol- 

i Daniel iii : 21-27. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 131 

lowers. Moreover, by laying down his life Jesus 
proved that there is a resurrection of the dead. He 
said : " Therefore doth my Father love me, because 
I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No 
man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my- 
self. I have power to lay it down, and I have 
power to take it again. This commandment have 
I received of my Father." * Even as he said to 
the disciples just before his betrayal : " I will not 
drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine [partake 
of that degree of Spiritual thought], until that day 
when I drink it new with you in my Father's king- 
dom " 2 [after his resurrection]. Otherwise, the 
people could have had no power over him. He 
said : " Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to 
my Father, and he shall presently give me more 
than twelve legions of angels ? But how then 
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must 
be ? " 3 Jesus was given up to his enemies " by 
the determinate council and foreknowledge of 
God ". 4 The power that could have translated 
him was withdrawn. When, on the Cross, percep- 
tion had so nearly ceased that he realized only that 
consciousness was slipping from him, he cried : 
" My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? " 
The reflex action of the force in the thought-ves- 



1 John x : 17, 18. 2 Matthew xxvi : 29. 

3 Matthew xxvi : 53, 54. 4 Acts ii : 23. 



132 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

sels ceased when the life-giving currents no longer 
passed through the creative channel. At death, 
the channel was not detached from Jesus' body. 
The third day the action of the vital currents re- 
commenced, and perception returned. Then, force 
belonging to a higher stratum pervaded the body, 
causing it to partake of the corresponding stratum 
of substance : in other words, changing it from 
a material body to a spiritual one. Jesus was 
then invisible to material sight. The disciples 
had their spiritual vision awakened, in order 
that the} 7 might see him after he had arisen, and 
so might bear witness to the truth, namely, 
that death is but a change to another phase of 
life. 1 

Had the compound channel been detached from 
Jesus' body at death, force proceeding through 
the creative vessels in sufficient volume to have 
produced another body would have made it per- 
fect, and it would not have proved to his disciples 
that he was other than a spirit, or apparition. 
He convinced them that it was he himself, by 
showing the holes in his hands and feet. 2 These 
remained as proof that his body ' had not seen cor- 
ruption '. 3 Even in the vision that St. John had 
of him as 'standing in the midst of the Throne' 

1 In I Cor. xv : 6, is the statement that Jesus was seen also 
by more than five hundred brethren at one time. 

2 Luke xx iv : 3G-40. 3 Acts xiii : 35-37. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 133 

he was still as he had been when slain, 1 so that in 
passing through the other phases of life they that 
dwelt therein might know that he was the one of 
whom the prophets had spoken, and might wel- 
come the highest degree of spiritual Wisdom 
which he declared. 

After Jesus had arisen, his body became an 
expression of the third stratum of Spirit. His 
normal state of mind was then in the second sys- 
tem of thought-vessels. Through the first system 
he could perceive both the second phase of crea- 
tion and the first. 2 If, as might be, a spiritual 
bod}^ were to become pervaded, temporarily, by 
force belonging to other than its own stratum of 
Spirit, objects which partake of that other stratum 
would then be ' substance ' to it. After the resur- 
rection of Jesus, his bod} T then partaking of 
another phase of creation, he entered, while the 
doors were shut, the room where his disciples were 
sitting. His creative channel was then pervaded 
by force from the lowest stratum, though not con- 
taining the conflicting element, the latter being 
warded off. His body was then substance to the 
disciples ; and objects in this phase of life were 
substance to hiiri. It is recorded that he ate in the 



1 Rev. v :6. Then, force passed through his creative chan- 
nel in sufficient volume to restore the body. 

2 Through the third system he could be given perception of 
the higher phases of life. 






134 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

presence of the Apostles. Moreover, Thomas put 
his ringer into the print of the nails. John xx : 
25-27 ; and Luke xxiv : 42, 43. 

In giving a blind man sight, Jesus showed that 
there is a vision that sees things not as they are ; 
for the man first beheld " men as trees, walking". 1 
To some of his disciples Jesus appeared in another 
form ; that is, " their eyes were holden," 2 and 
they saw him according to an image contained in 
mental currents that passed through their third 
system of thought-vessels, and, reacting upon a 
creative vessel that proceeds to the e} T e, supple- 
mented the natural image formed upon the retina. 3 
" As he sat at meat with them" he awakened anew 
their spiritual discernment. The higher mental 
force reacting upon the aforesaid vessel awakened 
spiritual sight, and " they knew him ". His bod}^ 
was then pervaded by force belonging to a higher 
stratum of Spirit, and being wafted onward " he 
vanished out of their sight". Their third quality 
of vision was then veiled. 

Jesus said he had other sheep that were not of 

1 Mark viii : 24. 

2 Luke xxiv : 16-31. Refer also to John xx : 15-18, where 
the statement is made that to Mary Magdalene, Jesus appeared 
as a gardener. Then her spiritual sight was awakened, and 
she knew him. 

3 A like mental action takes place in delirium. In some 
cases of hallucination, mental currents from the third system 
pass through the avenues of all the five senses. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 135 

this fold, 1 — those in the second phase of life ' who 
were to hear his voice' and follow him. The 
Scripture saj^s that many of the saints who slept 
(that is, had died and then had entered the second 
phase,) arose, and after his resurrection " went 
into the holy city, and appeared unto many ". 2 In 
other words, they were then changed to partake of 
the next stratum of substance and entered the 
third phase. They could be seen in this world by 
those whose spiritual sight was awakened. He 
also " preached unto the spirits in prison " 3 [those 
in the second phase of life who were bound in in- 
iquity] ; " That they might be judged according to 
men in the flesh, but live according to God in the 
spirit " ; i. e., that their sin might be gainsaid, and 
their perception and love of spiritual Wisdom awak- 
ened. When the work was finished which the 
Heavenly Father had given him to do in the lower 
phases of life, (even after the forty days during 
which he appeared, at intervals, to his disciples,) 
force belonging to a higher stratum pervaded his 
body and raised it to the fourth phase of creation. 
This took place when the Apostles witnessed his 
ascension, " And a cloud received him out of 
their sight." 4 The higher degree of force over- 
shadowed him when he was transfigured, and cast 
about him a shining garment. The Scriptures 

1 John x: 16. 2 Matthew xxvii: 52, 53. 

* I Peter iii : 19 ; and iv: G. 4 Acts i : 9. 



13G A NEW DEPARTURE. 

record that Moses and Elias appeared unto him. 
That mental atmosphere, so far above the material 
degree, made even the disciples who were with him 
" heavy with sleep ". But they were then quick- 
ened, that they might see him and the two men 
standing with him. 1 A body from 2iny one of the 
higher creations could have been wafted downward 
by the stream of force, of which it is the terminus 
and the expression. When that force receded, the 
body arose with it to the phase of life whence it 
had come. 

When, before he was crucified, Jesus walked 
upon the sea, his body was changed from the 
material and was pervaded by a force that held it 
above the water. Spiritual sight was awakened 
in the disciples, enabling them to see him. Peter, 
also, was changed ; 2 but fear in his mind beckoned 
to the material cloud, and, the higher force reced- 
ing, he began to sink. Jesus dispelled that cloud, 
and Peter was again upheld. 

A spiritual body is pervaded by the unobstructed 
force. When the mind is at-one with God, 3 wher- 
ever the stream of force is cast, its expression, the 
body, is wafted. Jesus said : " The wind bloweth 
where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound there- 
of, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither 

!Luke ix: 29-35. 2 Matthew xiv : 29-31. 

3 In the next phase of existence, the body is a spiritual one, 
but the mind is not at once regenerated. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 137 

it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can 
these things be ? " John iii : 8, 9. 

Creative light proceeding, at the will of God, 
through the unobstructed way opened by means of 
Jesus' spiritual perception, had the same vital 
force and infinite power as that which produced 
this phase of creation before being limited by a 
conflicting element. But unobstructed force can- 
not pass through the creative channel of man in 
his ordinary state of mind without causing death. 1 
Hence among unbelievers Jesus was prevented 
from doing mighty works, " Save that he laid his 
hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them," 2 
when the illness could be destroyed by only the 
ordinary currents of force. If a patient's faith 
were awakened, it temporarily held dormant the 
conflicting element in the system and in the com- 
pound channel : unobstructed Creative force could 
then pass through that channel and work miracles 
in the body. 3 

In insanity, the ungoverned mental force which 
passed through the third system of thought-vessels 
was cast out. The third system was then held 

1 See page 107, Note 2. 2 Mark vi : 5, 6. 

3 The word ' faith ' when used in Scripture with reference to 
the essential state of mind in people that were healed miracu- 
lously, signifies not perception of the spiritual Wisdom, but 
merely trust, confidence in the power of the Lord. 



138 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

dormant, the first was given its natural action, and 
thus the normal condition of mind was restored. 
As already said [page 134], when mental force 
from the third system reacts upon a creative vessel 
that proceeds to the eye, a person sees according 
to the images contained in that force. When 
waves from the highest Source passed through 
those thought-vessels (in order to cast out confu- 
sion), the " unclean spirit " — that is, the percep- 
tion of a seething mass of ungoverned thoughts 
let loose upon the brain — beheld the glory that is 
hidden from material vision, and cried : " What 
have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most 
high God ? " * It is recorded of Jesus that, in cast- 
ing out confusion, or so-called " devils ", he " suf- 
fered them not to speak : for they knew that he 
was Christ ". 2 

The power of unobstructed Creative force was 
not confined to objects as originally produced. 
Proceeding to the conception according to which 
man's skill had fashioned them, the force could 
produce a likeness of that design. Hence, in the 
miracle mentioned in Matthew xv : 32-39, the 
loaves of bread were multiplied innumerably, even 
as were the fishes, there being present a multitude 
of people whose compound channels separated the 
force that passed downward across them. 

1 Mark v : 7-15. 

2 Luke iv: 41. Refer also to James ii: 19. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 139 

According to this doctrine: — 1. The 25th of 
December is the true date of Jesus' birth. Seven 
days after he was born the first year of the Christian 
era began : thus the 1st of January A. D. 1, came 
seven days after he was a year old. 2. From the 
time of the birth of Jesus until the end of the first 
epoch of Light was nearly one hundred years, — 
thirty-three and one-third 1 before Jesus was cruci- 
fied ; and sixty-six years after the c Morning Star ' 
had passed beyond the sight of man. 3. Jesus 
taught nearly three years and a half ; even " a thou- 
sand two hundred and threescore days", that period 
of time being mentioned in Revelation (xi : 3,) as a 
term of Spiritual ministry. 4. He was crucified 
A. D. 33, on the 7th of April. The first period of 
the epoch was shortened eighteen days (that being 
the difference between " a thousand two hundred 
and threescore days ", and three years and a half) : 
the thirty-three and one-third years from the time 
of his birth would have been completed the 25th 
of April; deducting eighteen days brought the 
end of the first period of the epoch on the 7th of 
April. 2 5. At the end of the first reign of Truth 

1 Although the first period of the epoch was shortened 
eighteen days, it is always reckoned as thirty-three and one- 
third years. 

2 Jesus began his public ministry three years and a half be- 
fore the date — April 25th, a. d. 33 — on which would end the 
thirty-three and one-third years reckoned as the first period of 
the epoch. Then the three years and a half were shortened to 



140 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the Son of God came in the clouds of heaven, 
in like manner as the Apostles saw him go. 
(Acts i : 11.) Then were fulfilled his promises, 
namely, that he should come again in the glory of 
his Father ; and that those who lived [at that day] 
and believed in him should never die. 1 That time 
is referred to in the Scriptures as the resurrection 
at the last day [of the epoch], when those who 
had remained unto the end steadfast in confidence 2 
were changed from the material, and their bodies 
pervaded by the degree of Spiritual force that 
raised them to their final state. St. Paul refers to 
that last day as follows : " Behold, I show you a 
mystery : We [meaning those that were at-one 
with Christ] shall not all sleep [<»lie before the 
second coming of Jesus], but we shall all be 
changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead [meaning such of those in the second 
phase of life as belonged to this number] shall be 
raised incorruptible, and we [those that remained 
in this world until the end of the epoch] shall be 
changed." 3 He comforted such as sorrowed for 



"a thousand two hundred and threescore days ", as already 
stated. 

1 John xi : 26. In John xxi : 21-23, will be found an allusion 
to the expected second coming of Jesus, at the last day of the 
first epoch, when death should be abolished for those that were 
at-one with God. 

2 Heb. iii : 14. 8 I Cor. xv: 51, 52. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 141 

the people who had died, by reminding them that 
Jesus proved there is a resurrection of the dead ; 
and by telling them that those who ' slept in Jesus' 
would finally arise with the Saviour. St. Paul 
assured them that although some of those who 
were " called " would remain in this world until 
the second coming of the Son of God, it should 
not prevent from arising, those that had died. On 
the contrary he said, " The dead in Christ shall 
rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 
[in the faith] shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." x 
" For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and 
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead 
and living." 2 

A design relative to the Brotherhood of man, 
and fulfilled by material multiplication, is repre- 
sented when a multitude of people from the third 
phase of every planet that is inhabited in a solar 
universe are raised to the next higher stratum of 
creation, forming there, a multiple grand Body. 
When the original human life created upon the 
planets of our solar universe reached the fourth 
phase a multiple grand Body 3 was formed there, 
comprising seven thousand mystical Bodies, one 
from each solar system. Each of these Bodies was 



1 I Thess. iv: 13-17. 2 Romans xiv: 9. 

8 In those details, only one race is spoken of, and only one 
sex : the same plan was followed in regard to each. 



142 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

composed of seven thousand groups, one from each 
planet that is inhabited, each group containing the 
number of people (7,001) originally created upon 
the planet ; * and also, a remnant of their descend- 
ants. Thus in the multiple Body there was (be- 
sides the said remnant) a repetition of the number 
created in the two lower prime degrees of one race 
in the sixth phase. Of that multiple Body, Abel 
and one person from each of the other solar 
systems composed the head, which contained the 
same number as was created in the highest prime 
degree of one race in the heavenly Jerusalem. In 
the third phase of life are now three complete 
divisions, each one comprising three prime de- 
grees that correspond to the original ones in the 
sixth phase. The aforesaid divisions form three 
so-called 'grand' prime degrees. When raised 
to the fourth stratum of creation, they, together 
with the corresponding ones from the other in- 
habited planets of this solar universe, form grand 
prime degrees in that phase of life. In each 
the fourth phase, the fifth, and the sixth, are three 
of these grand degrees, composed of people born 
upon the planets. One of the three grand de- 
grees has a grand Head, so-called, containing a 
repetition of the number (7,000) created in one 
race in the highest phase. 2 Eventually, these 

1 Refer to page 82. 

2 This number is usally ignored in general statements. See 
page 50, Note 1, 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 143 

people arise to the seventh stratum of creation. 
Within a certain period in early ages a correspond- 
ing number were awakened spiritually in this world, 
and so did not c bow the knee to Baal ' * [the 
material understanding.]. During the first reign 
of Truth, seven thousand among those that were 
" called " (awakened spiritually) belonged to the 
grand Head. Such among this number as had died 
before the second coming of Jesus were at once 
raised to the fourth phase, where they remained 
until the end of the epoch. They then entered the 
seventh phase of life ; 2 and such of the followers of 
Jesus as were to ascend to the heavenly Jerusalem 
were raised from the second phase and the first. 
Hence, when the sons of Zebedee asked Jesus to 
grant that they might sit, one on his right hand 
and the other on his left hand, in his glory, he 
said, that — even if they could drink of the cup 
that he drank of and be baptized with his baptism 

1 Romans xi : 4. [Allusion to the "remnant " may be con- 
sidered as meaning also — in a general, abstract sense — all the 
people that were awakened spiritually during the first reign of 
Truth.] See also I Kings xix : 18. Although the name ' Elias ' 
symbolizes the third degree of mental force (refer to page 42, 
second paragraph of Note 3), the prophet Elijah, so-called in 
the Old Testament, and referred to in the aforesaid chapters of 
Romans and Kings respectively, — this prophet finally in this 
world received of spiritual Wisdom a higher degree than the 
third. 

2 St. Stephen, before he "fell asleep", beheld the highest 
glory, to which he should eventually arise. Acts vii: 56. 



144 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

— to sit on his right hand and on his left hand was 
not his to give, but that it should be given to them 
for whom it was prepared. 1 Referring to the res- 
urrection in the last day of the epoch, St. Paul 
says : " Every man in his own order : Christ the 
firstfruits [those composing a grand Head, and 
arising to the highest phase of life] ; afterward 
they that are Christ's [at-one with Truth] at his 
coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall 
have delivered up the kingdom to God. * * * The 
last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." I 
Cor. xv : 23-26. 

In the mj r stical Body containing the followers of 
Jesus, many of the lower members were awakened 
first. Those that were called toward the end of 
the epoch — ' at the eleventh hour, to work in the 
Father's vineyard,' [aid in the promulgation of 
Truth,] — were rewarded at the second coming of 
Jesus, even as were those that had borne the heat 
and toil of the day ; moreover, many of these last 
were first [the highest members] ; and many of 
the first were last. 2 Jesus said to the thief who 
was crucified with him, " To-day shalt thou be with 
me in paradise," referring to that spiritual day, 
or epoch of Light, at the end of which, those in the 
second phase of life who had received the higher 
Wisdom and become purified thereby were raised 
to the heavenly Jerusalem. 
1 Marks: 35-40. Matthew xx: 1-14, and xix: 20, 30. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 145 

The several degrees of spiritual Understanding 
were made manifest upon each planet that is in- 
habited, where the same general plan is carried out. 
Hence each had prophets, and, at the time in which 
Jesus taught, i one that was called after the order 
of Melchisedec ' ; that is, given the highest degree 
of spiritual discernment. 

As already stated, a grand prime degree is 
formed of three prime degrees that correspond to 
the original ones in the heavenly Jerusalem and 
that comprise a head, or highest degree, and six 
groups in each of the two lower degrees. 1 A 
' grand division ', so-called, comprises the number 
created within 1,000 years and forming three either 
prime or grand prime fourfold degrees, and also 
a fourfold grand Head. Difference in numbers 
between the population in early ages and in suc- 
ceeding ones causes the difference between a prime 
degree and a grand, or a possible ' multiple-grand', 
prime degree. 

As in the third phase of life, a 'grand division ' 
including the four races is completed in 1,000 

1 Refer to pages 78-9. In turning back to the fourth chapter, 
after reading these details relative to the numbers composing a 
' grand division ', it may at first seem confusing to find similar 
terms used when referring to the original number of 7,000 ; but 
as there are many groups, divisions, or mystical Bodies, in the 
original group, or 'grand Head', as well as in the divisions of 
the innumerable multitudes eventually arising to the sixth phase 
of creation, use of similar terms cannot well be avoided, 
io 



146 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



years, a fourfold grand prime degree, which is 
reckoned as one-third of that division, is completed 
in 333J } T ears. In the second phase is but one of 
these fourfold grand prime degrees ; in each race 
the head, or highest prime degree, and six groups 
occupy one so-called " horn ", or section, of the 
phase. The other six fourfold groups occupy the 
other section. A section is filled in 166§ }^ears — 
that is, in one-half the period allotted for the com- 
pletion of an aforesaid degree. 1 The people who 
die within that half period — counting, in the 
Christian era, from the beginning of each millenary 
—enter a section of the second phase. Those that 
leave this world within the next 166f years enter 
the other section. When the latter term of years 
expires, the people from the first section enter the 
third phase of life, forming there one-half of the 
lowest grand prime degree in each race. At the 
end of the succeeding 166 f years the section, in 
the second phase, that the}' had occupied is again 
filled. The people in the other one have become 
purified from the material nature: entering the 
third phase they complete the aforesaid degree, it 
then having a head and twelve groups in each race. 
The number of people transferred to the third 



1 Allusion to a section as having been 'filled' is not with 
reference to its space, but to its having then received all of 
the number that were to enter the section within a certain 
period. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 147 

phase from one section of the second, enter a 
higher section at the end of every 166f years, until 
reaching their final state. 1 They pass through, in 
regular order, the two sections belonging respect- 
ively to each of the three grand prime degrees in 
the third phase, the fourth, and the fifth. The 
section that they leave is filled by the people from 
the next lower one. This rule is varied in an 
epoch of Light : 2 at the end of the first one, mul- 
titudes from each of the four races in the second 
phase of life, together with those in this world 
that were " called ", were raised directly to their 
final state. 3 The early followers of Jesus were 
the first people who entered either the sixth phase 
or the seventh. As St. John expresses it — referring 



1 As already stated, the heavenly Jerusalem is the final state 
of all excepting the members of the grand Head. 

2 The rule was varied also for the followers of Abraham : after 
death they were at once raised to the fourth phase of life. 
See page 175. Allusion to the followers of Abraham is not to 
such as merely called themselves his disciples, but to those 
that within a certain period were purified in this world through 
discernment of the fifth degree of the spiritual Wisdom. 
Reference in these pages to a reign of Truth or to an epoch of 
Light alludes not to the time of Abraham, but to a period 
during which the highest degree of the spiritual Understand- 
ing is manifested. 

3 Of the American, or so-called "red' 1 , race, all those that 
were then raised to their final state were from the second 
phase, as in this world during the first epoch of Light the 
spiritual Wisdom was not perceived by that race. 



148 



A NE W BE PA RTURE. 



to the period in which he wrote — , " No man hath 
seen God at any time." 1 

It is recorded that in the early part of the first 
epoch of Light, multitudes were added to the 
church of Christ ; i. e., were given perception of 
Truth. " The Lord added to the church daily 
such as should be saved," 2 — gave spiritual Wis- 
dom to those that were to be purified from the 
material nature. When these people entered the 
second phase of life they became ministers to the 
chosen number, in the other races, that were not 
spiritually awakened in this world. 

At the end of three-fourths 3 of the sixty-six 
years which elapsed from the time that Jesus was 
crucified until the end of the epoch (hence six- 
teen years and a half before spiritual Light was 
withdrawn), multitudes of those that had become 
at-one with Truth had died, and thus had entered 
the second phase of life, causing an extended 
break in the mental cloud there. Through that 
space, higher mental force passed to this world. 
Had it continued to awaken spiritual perception 
in the people in this phase of life, material thought 
would have finally ceased. To prevent that end, 
the force passing through the said space gradually 
entered, without illuminating, the minds of peo- 

1 John i: 18 ; and John iv: 12. 2 Acts ii : 41, 47. 

3 The reason for using this particular fraction is stated on 
page 23G, Note 1. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 149 

pie who, although having heard the preaching 
of Truth, did not really imbibe the spirit thereof. 
These people then had great mental power. They 
originated " divers and strange doctrines," " ever 
learning, and never able to come to the 
knowledge of the Truth." 1 This spirit of anti- 
christ denied that that which was spiritually 
perceived is the Truth. Hence it denied both the 
Father and the Son. 2 One that knows God, will 
listen to them that speak the words of God ; 3 and 
one that understands and accepts the Truth of the 
Lord has the witness in himself. 4 Whosoever 
knows and teaches that spiritual perception is 
born of God, and that it opens the way to the re- 
generating wisdom and power of the Infinite — 
that one's mind is pervaded by the divine Light. 5 
Moreover, whosoever receives, in the spirit of 
meekness and holiness, the Truth declared by a 

1 II Timothy iii : 7. 2 I John ii : 22. 

3 IJohniv:6. 4 IJohnv:10. 

5 1 John iv: 15. See also Rom. x : 8, 9. If one is inclined 
to recognize only the letter, or material meaning, of these 
verses, let him consider that to merely ' believe, and confess, 
the fact that Jesus is the Son of God' does not change one's 
nature nor fill the mind with the spiritual Wisdom. Where 
reference is made in Scripture to being "saved" by belief in, 
and confession to, Jesus Christ it signifies purification through 
reception and promulgation of the infinite Truth which Jesus 
made manifest in his day, and which he promised should be 
revived through the "Holy Ghost" sent by the Heavenly 
Father. John xiv: 17 and 20. Refer to pages 21, 22. 



150 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



prophet, finally attains to a prophet's reward — 
union with God; and whosoever, receiving right- 
eousness by means of a righteous man, becomes 
like him, attains to a righteous man's reward. 
Matt, x : 41. Concerning them that were governed 
by the spirit of antichrist, St. John writes : " They 
went out from us, but they were not of us ; 
for if they had been of us, the}^ would no doubt 
have continued with us : but they went out, that 
they might be made manifest that they were not 
all of us." 1 Finally, at the end of three -fourths 
of the last sixteen years, even four years before the 
end of the epoch, the higher mental force continu- 
ing to enter the minds of these people, without 
dispelling the error therefrom, caused an increase 
of material thought and will-power ' which opposed 
and exalted itself above all that is called God, or 
that is worshiped ; and sat in the temple of God, 2 
showing itself that it was God ', 3 and doing ' such 
works as would have deceived the very elect, had 
that been possible '. Referring to those who were 
governed b} T that understanding — which is called 
the " Magog " — Jesus said, that in the last day 
[of the epoch] he should declare, " I never knew 
you." * 

ilJohn Ji-19. 

2 That is, ' professing to know God, but in works denying 
him.' Titus i : 16. 3 II Thess. ii:3, 4. 

4 Matt, vii: 22, 23 ; and xxiv: 24. Refer also to St. Paul's 
words in II Timothy iii : 1-5. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 151 

At the end of three-fourths of the last four years, 
hence one year before the second coming of Jesus, 
the Magog had caused such a cloud in the mental 
atmosphere of this world, that the rays of Truth 
were obscured. Jesus said: " The days will come, 
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the 
Son of man, and ye shall not see it." 4 Iniquity then 
abounded, and the love of many waxed cold. Na- 
tion rose against nation, and kingdom against king- 
dom ; there were wars, and rumors of wars.' The 
followers of Jesus were persecuted, hated, and 
some of them put to death ; but those that endured 
unto the end [of the epoch] were " saved ", l — 
changed from the material and raised to a 
higher phase of life. Referring to that period 
the Scripture saitli : " A remnant shall be saved : 
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in 
righteousness : because a short work will the Lord 
make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, 
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us [devout 
minds] a seed [the perception that is at-one with 
God], we had been as Sodoma, and been made like 
unto Gomorrah " ; 2 i. e., overpowered by fire at the 
last day of the epoch. 

The word ' soul ' is sometimes used in Scripture 
to designate the visible expression, or body, which 

1 Matthew xxiv: 1-13. 

2 Romans ix: 27-29. In Hebrews x : 25-39, reference is made 
to that last day of the epoch. See also I Peter iv: 17-19. 



152 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

is the likeness of the design relative to human, or 
to angel, life. 1 In Ezekiel xviii : 4, is the follow- 
ing line : " The soul that sinneth, it shall die," 
— another expression being produced, in the second 
phase of life, through the same compound channel. 
But in the last day of the first reign of Truth 
people who had remained steadfast in the " patient 
waiting for Christ " received the end of their faith, 
even the salvation of their souls, 2 through the 
Spiritual force which then passing to them, ' abol- 
ished death, and brought life and immortality to 
light.' This Spiritual force abolished forever from 
the mental organization, the inherent state (see page 
61, Xote 2.) which had held the body in its material 
condition, 3 even after the mind had become at- 
one with God. In that last day of the epoch the 
changing of the natural body to a spiritual one, b}' 
the power of the Omnipotent, is referred to by St. 
Paul as the resurrection of the body. See I Cor., 
heading of chapter xv. In that chapter the de- 
scription pertaining to the resurrection refers in 
verses 35-38, to the ordinary one after death [see 
page 63]; in verses 39-41, to people when they shall 

1 In the Scriptures the word ' soul ' is also used to denote the 
entire mind, which is transferred, after death, to another phase 
of life. 

- I Peter i: 7-10. 

3 Except at such times as force not of the first stratum may 
have temporarily caused the hody to partake of a different 
phase of creation. Refer to page 130. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 153 

have reached their final state [see page 81] ; and 
in verses following the 50th, to the resurrection in 
the last day of an epoch of Light. 

Addressing them that had become at-one with 
Christ, St. Peter said: " Ye are a chosen genera- 
tion, * * * a peculiar people ; that ye should show 
forth the praises of him who hath called you out 
of darkness into his marvelous light : Which in 
time past [before receiving spiritual discern- 
ment] were not a people, but are now the people 
of God." 

The " Magog " is referred to as salt which had 
lost its savor, and was fit for nothing but to be 
cast out. 1 "He that hath ears to hear, let him 
hear." But the Scriptures say of the people who 
were not awakened spiritually, that hearing they 
should hear, and not understand ; and seeing they 
should see, and not perceive, lest the whole world 
should have been converted. 2 Hence many were 
given " the spirit of slumber " until awakened, in 
the second phase of life. Jesus said to his fol- 
lowers : " Unto you it is given to know the mys- 
tery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that 
are without [spiritual perception], all these things 
are done in parables." 3 

JLukexiv: 34, 35. 

2 Matthew xiii: 10-17. Refer also to Rom. xi: 7-9, and to 
Acts xxviii : 25-27. 

3 Mark iv: 11. 



1 54 A NE W DEPA R TU11E. 

At the end of three-fourths of the last year of the 
epoch, and during the three months that elapsed be- 
fore the sixty-six years expired, an increased volume 
of active force passed to the material universe, 
causing disturbances, or " signs ", in the solar orbs. 
The force that surrounded the moon caused the 
satellite to be enveloped in flames ; that which 
proceeded to the earth, outside of the creative 
channel, being untempered, served to mitigate the 
heat thus caused. St. Peter said : " Beloved, 
think it not strange concerning the fiery trial 
which is to try you, as though some strange thing 
happened unto you " ; and Jesus, foretelling those 
things that came to pass in the l last days ', de- 
clared : " Great earthquakes shall be in divers 
places, and famines, and pestilences ; and fearful 
sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 
* * * And upon the earth distress of nations, with 
perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring [active 
currents from the moon offering increased attrac- 
tion to salt water] ; Men's hearts failing them for 
fear, and for looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven 
shall be shaken." 1 He said: " There shall be 
great tribulation, such as was not since the begin- 
ning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall 
be. And except those days should be shortened, 
there should be no flesh saved : but for the elect's 
J Luke xxi: 11 ; also verses 25,26. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 155 

sake those days shall be shortened." l The first 
reign of Truth was reckoned for one hundred 
years, thirty-three and one-third before Jesus was 
crucified, and sixty-six and two-thirds afterward. 
The sixty-six years were fulfilled the 25th of April, 
shortly after the date of his death, — the first period 
of the epoch having been shortened eighteen days. 
The two-thirds of a year which would have com- 
pleted the epoch, would have brought the end there- 
of on the 25th of December, the date of his birth. 
But, by a parable of the putting forth of the leaves, 
Jesus signified that the end should come in the 
spring-time. In that year vegetation awakened 
prematurely by heat from the moon was destroyed 
when the sun added his spring-time force : thus 
came " the abomination of desolation, spoken of 
by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought 
not (let him that readeth understand) ". 2 Jesus 
said: "Immediately after the tribulation of those 
days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall 
not give her light, and the stars shall fall from 
heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be 
shaken. And then * * * they shall see the Son 
of man coming in the clouds of heaven with pcwer 
and great glory." 3 In other words, force of the 
highest degree then passed to the earth, outside of 
creative channels, hiding the light of the solar orbs. 

1 Matthew xxiv: 21,22. 2 Markxiii: 14. 

8 Matthewxxiv: 29, 30. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 




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Moreover, it pressed downward all fragments, or 
shooting stars, 1 ' even as a might}'- wind casts the 
untimely fruit from a fig tree.' 2 Then Spiritual 
light swept ear tli ward, carrying with it Jesus and 
a group of angels in the perfect glory of God. 
The} r were borne through the second phase of life 
and then around the earth, even as Jesus said : 
" As the ligrh tiring cometh out of the east, and 
shineth even unto the west ; so shall also the com- 
ing of the Son of man be." * * * His angels 
"shall gather together his elect from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the other". 3 
Again : he declared to his followers that he should 
come and receive them unto himself, that where 
he was, they might be also. 

The epoch was shortened about eight months. 
"But," in the words of Jesus, " of that [last] day 
and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of 
heaven, but my Father only." 4 He said : " There 
be some standing here, which shall not taste of 
death, till they see the Son of man coming in his 
kingdom" ; 5 and again : " Verily I say unto you, 
This generation shall not pass, till all these things 
be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
but my words shall not pass away." 6 Spiritual 

1 Daring the disturbances already referred to, numbers of 
these fragments were detached from the solar orbs. 

2 Rev. vi : 13. 8 Matt. xxiv: 27, 31. 
4 Matt, xxiv: 36. 5 Matt, xvi: 28. 

6 Matt, xxiv : 34, 35. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 157 

sight having been awakened in all, throughout this 
phase of life and the second, it was fulfilled accord- 
ing to the words of St. John, namely : u Every eye 
shall see him, and they also which pierced him : 
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of 
him." 2 They whose lamps contained oil — that 
is, whose wisdom (light) was sustained by love, 
4 went in to the marriage ', even the union of Truth, 
with the mind's perception and love of Truth. 
Then " the door was shut " ; i. e., the Light was 
withdrawn. In that day the cities of those gov- 
erned by the Magog were destroyed by fire caused 
by the highest degree of force, which then over- 
whelmed the atmosphere of certain parts of the 
globe. A remnant that had been left of the num- 
ber of people overpowered by the "tribulations" 
preceding the last day of the epoch were then 
killed, as they belonged to the number which were 
to take the vacant place in the second phase, 2 so 
that, as the mental cloud there would be thus in- 
creased to its ordinary volume, the spiritual Under- 
standing should be again hidden from this 
world. 

God, in order to " make known the riches of 
his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had 

1 Rev. i : 7. 

2 At that time, a multitude had just been raised to the 
heavenly Jerusalem from the second phase of life. Refer to 
page 147. 



158 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

afore prepared unto glory, * * * endured with 
much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to 
destruction ", 1 — the destruction of the material 
body, and finally, in the second phase of life, of 
the mental error. The Epistle of Jude treats of 
them that had " gone in the way of Cain [governed 
by selfishness], and ran greedily after the error of 
Balaam 2 for reward, and perished [from earth] in 
the gainsaying of Core " [error]. 3 To them that 
should be overpowered in the last day of the epoch, 
St. Paul refers as follows : " The Lord Jesus shall 
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that 
knew not God, and that obey not the gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ : Who shall be punished 
with everlasting destruction 4 from the presence 
of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." 5 
Even as is written in Acts iii : 23. " It shall come 
to pass [in the last day of the epoch], that every 
soul, which will not hear that prophet [Jesus], 
shall be destroyed from among the people." Jesus 
declared that then it should be even as at the time 
of the Flood (tides causing inundations), and even 

1 Romans ix : 22, 23. Refer also to II Thes. ii: 6-12. 

2 That is, the understanding of the power of material mind 
over matter. 

8 See also II Peter, chapter ii. 

4 Meaning the destruction of the material body : the creative 
channel was then given expression in the second phase of life. 

5 II Thes. i: 7-9. Refer also to Heb. x: 26, 27; and vi: 8. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 159 

as Sodom was destroyed by fire, 1 — active force, 
unveiled, reducing to ashes the cities governed by 
the Magog. In connection with that first reign 
of Truth, referring not to the whole world but to 
those cities, St. Peter said : " The day of the Lord 
will come as a thief in the night ; in which the 
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the 
earth also and the works that are therein shall be 
burned up." 2 He affirmed, moreover, that the 
children of Truth looked for " new heavens and 
a new earth [to which they should be raised], 
wherein dwelleth righteousness ". Jesus said to 
his followers that when they should see the abom- 
ination of desolation, then to " stand in the holy 
place ", i. e., in perception of the Spiritual, — com- 
plete renunciation of self, and at-one-ment with 
God, being necessary, in order to be changed from 
the material. He whose selfish desires remained, 
causing him to seek to save his life, lost it, being 
overpowered by the elements. But he whose 
whole heart and mind were at-one with Christ was 
changed from the material, thus keeping his life 
unto that which is immortal. 

At the time in which active force overwhelmed 

1 Luke xvii : 26-30. 

2 TI Peter iii: 10-13. These verses refer also to the last day 
of the second epoch, and to the end of the world, after the 
close of the third reiffn of Truth. 




160 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



the atmosphere of certain parts of the globe, the 
same quality rushed through the moon's creative 
channel causing volcanic eruptions in that satellite. 
When the natural atmosphere of the earth was 
restored, active force receded from the moon, 
leaving it in its ordinary passive state. 

In the parable of the virgins, 1 the foolish repre- 
sent those who, although having received a degree 
of the spiritual Wisdom, had neither the essential 
realization of Truth nor the steadfast love for it ; 
consequently the knowledge profited them nothing. 
Being not at-one with Christ they could not ' go 
in with him to the marriage '. (Refer to page 
157.) In the last day of the epoch, where two 
people were together in the field and one was puri- 
fied from the material nature, c he was taken ; the 
other was left.' The disciples asked : " Where, 
Lord ? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the 
body is, thither will the eagles be gathered to- 
gether " ; 2 that is, where there is the conception 
of a mystical Body, thereto will be gathered such 
as are sustained by that degree of perception. 
Although ' many were called \ awakened to spirit- 
ual discernment, some turned back to the material, 
— the seed fell by the wayside, in stony places, or 
among thorns, 3 — and thus ' few were chosen '. 



1 Matt, xxv : 1-12. 
3 Matt, xiii: 19-23. 



2 Luke xvii : 34-37. 
See also Matt, xx : 16. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 161 

People living just before the end of the epoch can 
be classed in three groups : viz., those that were 
at-one with God ; those governed by the Magog, 
or spirit of antichrist ; and those that neither op- 
posed Truth nor were at-one therewith. A few of 
the latter people, that had not ' fled to the moun- 
tains ', were drowned in the places that were inun- 
dated. The majority were in that part of the 
country, neither visited by fire nor within reach of 
the tides. Hence they were " left ", to continue 
in a material state. 

When the higher mental force was withdrawn, 
from them that had not love was taken even that 
spiritual Wisdom which they had had, 1 — their 
minds becoming oblivious of the higher Under- 
standing. The event was remembered merely as 
sundry phenomena and loss of life by the destruc- 
tive power of the elements. Thus the second 
coming of Jesus took, as it was decreed to take, 
from the world that spiritual Wisdom which had 
been manifested. The second coming of Truth 
will establish another reign of Jesus — through the 
Spirit, that shall glorify the Son of God. 2 

The writings composing the New Testament 
were gathered together by the saints that lived 
toward the close of the epoch. After the higher 
Wisdom was vailed, a material construction was 



1 Matt, xiii : 12. 2 John xvi : 13-15. 

11 



162 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

placed upon the symbolic language by minds that 
were oblivious of the Spiritual meaning. The 
record of the second coming of Jesus, having been 
buried beneath the ruins of ' the tabernacle 
[the Understanding] that had fallen clown ', was 
securely hidden by the material beliefs which 
were raised above it. Hence the Scripture saith, 
that the way into the holiest of all is not mani- 
fest while the tabernacle formed by material 
thought remains standing. 1 The cloud can be 
pierced only from Above. Jesus said, " No man 
hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came 
down from heaven, even the Son [the Truth] of 
man which is in heaven." 2 St. Paul declares : 
" The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second 
man is [of] the Lord from heaven." Hence there 
must be the " second birth ", which is not of the 
material, but is of the Spiritual. It is when the 
third system of thought-vessels is awakened, caus- 
ing one to discern and love the infinite Wisdom. 
Jesus said, u Except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the kingdom of God." 3 Even as St. Paul 
declares : " The natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolish- 

1 Heb. ix: 8. The verse applies not only to the material 
construction placed upon the law of Moses and upon the writ- 
ings of the other early prophets, but also to that which vails 
the New Testament. 

2 Johniii: 13. 3 Johniii:3. 




A NEW DEPARTURE. 163 

ness unto him: neither can he know them, because 
they are spiritually discerned." x Moreover, except 
one be born of purity and Truth, he cannot enter 
into the kingdom of God. John iii: 5. 

In the New Testament are many parables rela- 
tive to the second coming of Jesus. It is spoken 
of as ' the end of the world ', and also, as the * last 
day ', when the wicked — signifying those that 
were governed by the spirit of antichrist — should 
be separated from the just, the latter entering the 
kingdom of God ; and the former being over- 
powered by fire, they having 'sinned the sin that 
is unto death '. Concerning this sin St. John 
writes, 4 1 do not say that ye shall pray for it ' ; 2 
because the said number were then to enter the 
second phase of life, so that, by taking the place 
of those raised therefrom, the mental cloud in that 
phase should be increased sufficiently to vail 
again the spiritual Understanding from the people 
in this world. 

In the parable of the tares, 3 the latter typify 
people governed by the Magog ; the wheat repre- 
sents the children of Truth. Had the tares been 
gathered up, — that is, had the mental force been 
withdrawn, — the wheat could have been no longer 
sustained: so the former were allowed to remain 



1 T Cor. ii : 14 and 7. Refer also to T Cor. i: 17-31. 

2 I John v: 1. 3 Matt, xiii: 24-30. 



164 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

until the " harvest ". In the second phase of life 
these people were suffered to continue in error 
until a sufficient number had entered to keep the 
vail before this world. Then, the aforesaid people 
and others who had previously died governed by 
the Magog, — these people, being by themselves in 
one part of their section, were overpowered by 
force from the highest stratum of Spirit. When 
proceeding in sufficient volume this force always 
causes fire where there is error. 1 " This is the sec- 
ond death." (Rev. xx : 14.) Then through each 
compound channel, another body was produced in 
the same section of the phase. At that time the 
Magog was " cast out ". 2 Their minds being then 
reanimated, the people 'came to themselves'; and 
although having wasted the Father's substance and 
being yet " a great way off ", Spiritual thought 

1 In the second phase of life, mental currents pass through 
the body. See page 65. Reference in the Scriptures to 'ever- 
lasting ' and ' unquenchable' fire is to the highest force, which 
is everlasting, and when unmodified and proceeding in suffi- 
cient volume cannot be quenched until it destroys that which 
is contrary to it. Moreover, the mental force which destroys 
error is everlasting; emphasizing in the second phase of life 
one's consciousness of his own moral discord, it causes there 
intense remorse in the wicked, until by that moans they are 
brought to desire purity. The force then gradually — through 
awakening spiritual perception and love — regenerates the 
mind and brings eternal salvation. Anything that is contrary 
to the Spirit of God is not everlasting. 

2 Refer to page 153. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 165 

went out to meet them, awakening love for God, 
and discernment of His wisdom. Although hav- 
ing been dead, they were alive again ; although 
having been lost, they were found. 1 When the 
' time before appointed ' arrived, this number, to- 
gether with the people from the other parts of the 
same section, entered the third phase of life, puri- 
fied, justified and glorified. 

In the New Testament in sundry passages 
admitting of the two interpretations, one refers to 
the end of a reign of Truth. That last day is 
called ' the day of judgment '. The words ' salva- 
tion ' and ' destruction ' have then reference to the 
body ; and the word 6 hell ' signifies death caused 
by the highest force, in this phase of life and finally 
in the second. In the last day of an epoch of Light, 
the promise that c He shall change our vile body » 
is fulfilled literally for them that are at-one with 
Christ. The other interpretation of the said pas- 
sages is given in preceding chapters. 

Jesus said, " Fear not them which kill the body, 
but are not able to kill the soul " [the body pro- 
duced in the second phase of life] : but — referring 
to the latter days of a reign of Truth — fear him 
who, by teaching an erroneous doctrine, is able to 
deliver unto death the material body and, at the 
second death, the spiritual one. 2 Our Lord de- 

1 Luke xv : 11-32. 2 Matt, x : 28. 



166 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

clared to his disciples : " Whatsoever ye shall 
bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven : and 
whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed 
in heaven." 1 In other words, when the divine 
Light which proceeded to them illuminated also 
the minds of others, the latter should be thereby 
purified both for this world and for that which is 
to come: people who did not receive the gift 
remained in material thought in this life, and in 
the second until eventually awakened to discern 
and love the infinite Wisdom. 

At the end of the first reign of Truth, ' on 
whomsoever the stone [a volume of the highest 
degree of Thought] fell, it ground to powder ' ; 
i. e., caused the destruction of the bod} r . Whoso- 
ever fell on it was broken, 2 — severed from the 
material understanding and from the " pride of 
life"; then raised in Spiritual knowledge and 
humility, and made " whole " b}^ the power of God. 
He saith, " I will betroth thee unto me forever." 3 
Again: " I will uphold thee with the right hand 
of my righteousness. * * * Fear thou not ; for I 
am with thee : be not dismayed ; for I am thy God." 
Isaiah xli : 10. 

1 These words were addressed not only to Peter (Matt, xvi: 
19), but also to the other disciples (Matt, xviii : 18). 

2 Matt, xxi : 44. 8 Hosea ii : 19. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 167 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE FLOOD. 

The " ministering spirits " 1 were created in the 
fifth phase of life, then transferred to the fourth. 
For a time, their third system of thought-vessels 
was held dormant and thus the higher degrees of 
Wisdom were hidden from them. For two thou- 
sand years after the fall of man they had no higher 
than the fourth degree of spiritual perception. 
That degree of mental force, symbolized by the 
name ' Levi ', 2 is not powerful enough to over- 
come the material understanding. Were the fifth 
degree not obscured, the spiritual Wisdom would 
not be hidden from this world. 3 When the afore- 
said angels received the fifth degree of Under- 
standing, it was given also to Abraham. Finally 

1 See page 98. 2 Refer to page 45. 

3 It being decreed that whenever either the fifth or a higher 
degree of mental force proceeds to this phase of life it shall 
awaken, in certain people in some part or parts of the world, 
perception of the spiritual Wisdom. In minds where the force 
enters without awakening spiritual discernment, it causes a 
great increase of material thought and will-power. Refer to 
pages 148-150. 



1(>8 



A NEW DEPARTU11E. 



it was vailed from this world by a mental cloud in 
the second phase of life. 

Until the latter part of the first millenary l the 
conflicting element in the creative channels of 
man was held in subjection, so that it could not 
increase sufficiently to shut out the life-giving 
currents. At the end of the first 3331 years of 
the second millenary the number had died that 
completed one fourfold prime degree in the second 
phase. 2 Within the next 333J years the conflict- 
ing element had attained sufficient volume to 
cause the death of a number that completed the 
second fourfold prime degree, occupying the other 
section of the phase. As already stated [page 
145] a fourfold grand division, having three 
degrees 3 in each race, is completed by material 
multiplication in 1,000 years (the first millenary 
of material life is excepted), one degree being 
completed in 333J, and two degrees in 666f, } T ears. 
When the people composing two fourfold prime 
degrees had entered the second phase of life 
(which was thus 1,666 f }^ears after the fall of 
Adam), it brought such a mental cloud before 
those in this world, that wickedness prevailed. 

1 That is, dating from the time that the material understand- 
ing arose in this solar universe. 

2 Besides the number originally created upon the planet. 

3 Whether they, together, correspond to the three original 
ones in the sixth phase, or whether each degree includes the 
three: it is then called a grand prime degree. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 169 

A volume of higher mental force then swept 
downward, pervading the minds of the people 
that dwelt in the second phase, and, overpowering 
all thoughts that were not spiritual, brought 
oblivion to the sinful. Simultaneously, force from 
the grand centre prevented currents from arising 
in those compound channels. The expressions 
thereof were thus dissolved: the channels then 
receded to the original Nucleus. The people 
originally created upon the planet, and also divers 
of their descendants, remained. The spiritual 
nature of the former people, although having been 
held dormant when the material understanding 
arose, could not be destroyed, but remained in the 
recesses of the mind. When the higher mental 
force destroyed material thoughts it also animated 
their original nature. The}^, together with such 
of their descendants as had ' called upon the name 
of the Lord', 1 were then changed to partake of the 
third stratum of substance ; they entered the third 
phase of life, forming the lowest prime degree 
therein. Enoch and Abel were exceptions to the 
general rule. Enoch was changed 2 from the 
material, and raised to the fourth stratum of 
creation ; Abel ascended thereto soon after death. 
When the aforesaid prime degree, to which they 
belonged, entered that phase of life they were 

1 Genesis iv : 26. 2 Genesis v : 24. 






170 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

united with it : when these people reached their 
final state, Enoch entered the seventh phase, as he 
belonged to a grand Head. 1 

At the time in which higher mental currents 
proceeded to the second phase, a volume of force 
from Above passed to this world, causing the 
Flood. 

According to this c understanding ' : — Of the 
natural amount in water of the gas (carbonic acid) 
caused by the conflicting element, a certain pro- 
portion keeps water from responding to the attrac- 
tion offered by the force which produced it. 2 
When there is less than a still smaller propor- 
tion of the said gas, water evaporates. If the 
impure element is wholly dispelled, vapor is re- 
duced to a perfect gaseous state. Tempered force 
dispels from water a proportion of the impure 
gas, and thus causes evaporation. A certain force 
consisting of hydrogen and oxygen constantly 
passes to the atmosphere of inhabited planets, and 
when meeting atoms of carbonic acid gas is ob- 

1 See page 84. 

2 As already stated, in the * double ' of a creative channel 
proceeding to solids, the downward pressure counterbalances 
the attraction offered by Creative force. The same amount of 
pressure existing in the double of a channel proceeding to 
liquids is not sufficient to keep them from responding. In the 
other phases of creation, water is caused to resist the attrac- 
tion by having in solution a greater amount of mineral sub- 
stance — other than salt. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 171 

structed thereby, which causes the reflex action of 
a current of the force. Thus is produced in the 
atmosphere of all parts of the globe, a certain 
amount of moisture that does not depend upon 
evaporation. 

At the time of the Flood, a volume of force con- 
sisting of Irydrogen and oxygen produced rain upon 
reaching clouds that contained carbonic acid gas. 
Finally, currents of active force gradually dispelled, 
in certain latitudes, most of that gas from the 
clouds and from the surface of the waters. Hence 
rain ceased, and the waters that had covered those 
parts of the earth, gradually evaporated. Impure 
gas which the vapor contained was then dispelled ; 
the force was thus restored to its original state : 
it then receded. 

The Scripture says, that Noah was " warned of 
God of things not seen as yet " ; 1 that is, he was 
awakened spiritually, and given an understanding 
which developed his spiritual nature, so that he did 
not become unconscious when a higher mental 
atmosphere overshadowed the earth. That under- 
standing was communicated by him to the people 
that were to be left in the world. 

Four-footed animals (the normal nature of the 

savage ones being held dormant), « fowls of the air, 

and creeping things ' were drawn by instinct to 

the place where the ark rested, and were gathered 

1 Hebrews xi: 7. 



172 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

therein. Most of them were then torpid for a 
time. The creative channels of the people that 
were drowned and also the channels that had pro- 
ceeded to such of the lower conscious life as had 
not been gathered into the ark receded to the orig- 
inal Nucleus, instead of having another expres- 
sion. 

When the higher degree of mental force was 
withdrawn from this phase of life, the natural state 
of mind in Noah and his kindred was resumed. 
Material desires again arose, which in later years 
caused Noah to " lose his garment " ; * that is, ob- 
scured his spiritual understanding. His two sons 
who retained the higher knowledge, dispelled the 
cloud that had entered his mind. Pure, mental 
force then brought renewed wisdom and righteous- 
ness. In the other three races some of the people 
were awakened spiritually. In three other parts 
of the globe — namely, Africa, China, and the west- 
ern hemisphere— arks were built, by means of which 
were kept alive a number of people and of expres- 
sions in the series of lower conscious life. 

Three hundred thirty-three and one-third years 
after the Flood 2 the requisite number of people 
had died, to form, in the second phase of life, an- 
other (and the smallest) fourfold prime degree, 

1 Genesis ix: 20-23. 

2 That is, at the end of the second millenary of material life 
in this solar universe. 






A NEW DEPARTURE. 173 

the third by material multiplication. Most of the 
people who had composed the two preceding degrees 
in the second phase were annihilated at the time 
in which the Flood destroyed those that were in 
this world. When the aforesaid prime degree (the 
third) was completed, — that is, at the end of the 
time required for the production by material mul- 
tiplication of one grand division, — the " minister- 
ing spirits " received, and gave, the fifth degree of 
Understanding. It was then that Abraham received 
it, even 333^ years after the Flood. As the Flood 
was 1,666 1 years after the fall of Adam, from the 
latter period until the spiritual awakening of 
Abraham was 2,000 years. Three hundred thirty- 
three and one-third years after Abraham, 1 the peo- 
ple composing the aforesaid prime degree — which 
had occupied one section of the second phase — 
entered the third, 2 having become purified from the 
material nature by the fifth degree of mental force, 
which proceeded to the second phase of life at the 
same time that Abraham received the spiritual 
Wisdom. 

During the said 333 i years (in that period the 

1 Dating always from the time in which he was first given 
the spiritual Understanding. 

2 They then formed the second prime degree in the third 
phase, the preceding degree having heen composed of the 
people originally created upon the planet, and a remnant of 
their descendants. Eventually this second prime degree formed 
the highest one of the second grand division. See pages 192-3. 



174 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



other section of the second phase was filled, al- 
though by only one-half of the number represent- 
ing a prime degree), — during the said period, 
people whose minds were wholly defiled, the men- 
tal cloud having again increased, were annihilated 
directly after death, their creative channels being 
withdrawn to the original Nucleus instead of hav- 
ing another expression. Only the number com- 
posing one fourfold half of one of the larger 
prime degrees entered the second phase. 1 Other- 
wise, in that phase of life would have been such 
multitudes of the wicked, that iniquity would 
have prevailed in this world, even as it did prevail 
before the Flood. When population had increased 
sufficiently, so that, although in the next phase of 
existence were many of the sinful, a margin, so to 
speak, would be left in this world, the law entered 
to prevent annihilation. At the end of the 166| 
years following the time at which the second four- 
fold degree in the third phase was completed, the 
people, 2 from this world, composing the other half 
of the degree in the second phase had all entered 
their section of that phase. Then those from the 
other section, having become purified, were trans- 

1 After (lie 333$ years just mentioned, either section in the 
second phase contained only one-half of the number composing 
a prime, or grand prime, degree. Thus since that time a sec- 
tion is filled in one-half of 333$ years, even in 166$ years. 

2 These details refer to the people that were not disciples of 
Abraham. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 175 

ferred to the third phase of life, forming one four- 
fold half of the third prime degree therein : 166 f 
years after that, the section in the second phase 
that they had arisen from was again filled ; the 
people from the other one entered the third phase, 
completing there the third fourfold prime degree. 
Hence 666 f years after Abraham three fourfold 
prime degrees had been completed in the third 
phase, the highest degree containing the original 
human life. Since 333J years after Abraham, a 
section of the second phase is filled every 166 § 
years ; then the people from the other one enter 
the third phase of life. 

The Wisdom given to Abraham and his followers, 
and also to the other races through " faith " — 
spiritual perception — purified them from material 
thought and developed their spiritual nature suffi- 
ciently, so that after death they could be at once 
raised to the fourth phase of life. At that stratum 
cf creation two fourfold prime degrees, correspond- 
ing to the larger original ones in the heavenly 
Jerusalem, were thus formed of the said people, 
one degree having a grand Head, to which be- 
longed the prophets who lived within that time ; 
of that group in the Caucasian race David was 
" king", or highest member. 1 

1 In that race the members of the grand Head, excepting 
Abraham and Isaac, were from among the descendants of Jndah. 
See page 80, Note 1. 



176 



A NEW DEPARTUBE. 






A fourfold grand division [see page 145], hav- 
ing three either prime or grand prime degrees in 
each race, and completed in 1,000 years, is reckoned 
for twenty-one spiritual Generations. Hence one 
fourfold degree, being one-third of that division, is 
called seven Generations, and is completed in S33£ 
years ; two degrees are called fourteen Generations 
and are completed in 666 f years. It is recorded, in 
Matthew i : 17, that from Abraham to David 1 there 
were fourteen generations. In other words, within 
that time, two fourfold degrees of a grand division 
were formed; therefore the period was 666| years. 
Thus at the time in which the third fourfold prime 
degree in the third phase was completed, — contain- 
ing the people that were not given spiritual percep- 
tion in this world, but were purified after they 
reached the second phase and finally transferred to 
the third, — at that time, two fourfold prime degrees 
had been formed in the fourth phase, containing 
those who through perception of the spiritual 
Wisdom were, after death, at once raised to the 

1 That is, from the time Abraham was awakened spiritually 
until the end of David's reign. 

Preceding and succeeding the several periods during which 
a higher Wisdom is discerned in this world — and also before 
the new influx of mental force at the time of David — a glimmer- 
ing of the light, as at early dawn and twilight, causes in minds 
not awakened spiritually a consciousness of mental power over 
matter. Hence, mental healing and various accompanying 
theories arise in each of the eight reigns of error mentioned 
on page 229. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 17 J 

fourth phase of life. Then ' the tabernacle of 
David 1 fell ' ; i. e., that Understanding was hidden 
from this world. 2 After death, all people entered 
a section of the second stratum of creation and 
were finally transferred thence to the third phase 
of life. 

At the end of the next fourteen Generations, even 
666 f years after David, the clearer mental atmos- 
phere which lingered after spiritual discernment 
ceased, had become so obscured that people dwell- 
ing upon earth were again in moral darkness — 
' carried away into Babylon ' [error]. Within that 
time those from the second phase had formed two 
fourfold degrees in the third ; a corresponding 
number from the third had ascended to the fourth, 
one fourfold degree (that which contained the 
original human life) then forming the lowest one 
in the fourth phase ; — the two higher ones there 
contained, in one race, the followers of Abraham ; 3 
the next degree crowded out, as it were, the people 

1 Although Abraham made manifest the fifth degree of Un- 
derstanding, as it received new light through David (who had 
a higher perception), it is always associated with the latter 
prophet. 

2 That is, hidden from the people generally : prophets that 
arose after the reign of David are of course excepted. 

8 In the other three races were those that during the same 
period had received in this world the same degree of the spirit- 
ual Wisdom. These people, and the followers of Abraham, 
had entered the lowest section of the fourth phase, and thence 
had ascended, in regular order. 
12 



178 A NSW DEPARTURE. 

who had composed the highest one: they then 
entered the fifth phase, forming the lowest degree 
therein. At the end of the next fourteen Genera- 
tions (666 f years), the same plan having been 
repeated, the people composing two fourfold de- 
grees of a grand division had entered the third 
phase, a corresponding number therefrom had 
ascended to the fourth, and a like number from 
the fourth, having entered the fifth, completed a 
grand division in the latter phase of life. Thus 
there was then one of those divisions in each, the 
third phase, the fourth, and the fifth. After this 
completion, the degree of Wisdom was to be made 
manifest, without discernment of which people 
cannot enter the heavenly Jerusalem. At the 
beginning of Jesus' ministry he said : " The time 
is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand." 1 
The Wisdom was brought to light first in the 
lowest phase of life, Christ having " descended 
first into the lower parts of the earth*'. He then 
" ascended [to the Throne of God] up far above 
all heavens, that he might fill all things ". 2 To 
recapitulate : It was, according to this doctrine, 
2,000 years from the time the material understand- 
ing arose in this solar universe until Abraham was 
awakened spiritually ; and 2,000 years from the 
latter period until the birth of Jesus. 

1 Mark i : 15. 2 Epkesians iv : 9, 10. 



A NEW DEPA R TUBE. 179 

The Scripture records, * that the law " was added " 
four hundred and thirty years after the covenant 
was established with Abraham. Hence, Moses 
was sent to the children of Israel B. c. 1570. 

It is written in Romans v : 14, that " death 
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that 
had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's 
transgression " ; that is, when, instead of having 
another expression, the compound channel that had 
proceeded to a person was withdrawn to the origi- 
nal Nucleus, that of the guardian angel, being 
co-existent with it, receded also. The expression 
thereof was dissolved into light which was engulfed 
in the grand Nucleus until the channel again 
sprang forth and was given expression in either 
the seventh phase of life or the sixth, before its 
duplicate proceeded to this world. 

The law revived and emphasized the fact that 
sin is contrary to the way of the Lord. (In the 
words of St. James : " Let no man say when he is 
tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot 
be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any 
man : But every man is tempted, when lie is drawn 
away of his own lust, and enticed " — governed 
by thoughts which emanate from the material un- 
derstanding.) When the law entered, intensified 
consciousness of the presence of any moral discord 
was implanted in every mind. In the next phase 

1 Galatians iii : 17. 



180 



A XEW DEPARTURE. 



of life, higher mental currents sustained and more 
strongly intensified that consciousness. When, in 
the sinful, remorse had caused a desire for purity, 
divine Light, through awakening spiritual percep- 
tion and love, gradually dispelled the cloud and 
brought eternal salvation. Onlj* before the law 
entered were the wicked finally annihilated. 
Although " the law worketh wrath " (causes much 
remorse for sin), 1 it is the means by which evil 
minds are sustained until pure thoughts are awak- 
ened. Otherwise, the fifth degree of mental force 
overshadowing the second phase of life would 
cause oblivion there to minds devoid of virtuous 
thoughts, which the Spirit of God can sustain. 
As will be seen, the Spirit of God cannot sustain 
sinful thoughts, but can sustain in a mind con- 
sciousness of the presence therein of that evil 
which the Omnipotent has condemned. Sin did 
not exist originalkr, but arose through the mind's 
perverting truth and love. Force does not cease 
to be, when it becomes defiled : the influx of a 
higher current when awakening in the mind dis- 
cernment of the higher Truth and Love, correcting 
that which had been perverted, dispels the impure, 
and restores the force to its original condition. 
That which is contrary to God was forbidden at 
the time of Adam, in order that the people should 
have consciousness of, and a standpoint for, right 
1 See page 47. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 181 

and wrong; but sin was not emphatically con- 
demned until the law entered, through the medium- 
ship of Moses. 

In I Cor., chapter x, St. Paul says : " Moreover, 
brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, 
how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and 
all passed through the sea ; and were all baptized 
unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea." In 
other words, they all were governed by the ma- 
terial understanding and all passed through the 
baptism of purity, although still " in the cloud " 
— the material understanding not having been 
overcome, but only the sins arising therefrom ; 
and they all partook of a degree (the fourth 
degree) of the Truth that was to follow them ; but 
they did not discern its full signification, 4 a vail 
being upon their hearts.' 1 

As already stated, the Wisdom that Abraham 
made manifest was discerned in this world during 
666| years. Thus it continued to reign many 
years after the law entered. " Wherefore then 
serveth the law ? It was added because of trans- 
gression "; 2 i. e., in order that people who, being 
not needed to complete the two fourfold prime 
degrees in the fourth phase, were not given spirit- 

1 II Cor. iii: 13-16. Of the fourth degree of spiritual Under- 
standing the three principal prime degrees of perception were 
given, respectively, to Aaron, Moses, and Levi. 

2 Gal. iii: 19. 



182 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



ual discernment in this world, might nevertheless 
become pure materially, or else should have that 
consciousness of their sin which would prevent the 
higher force from causing oblivion. In the para- 
ble of Dives and the beggar, 1 the latter, living 
before the time had expired during which the fifth 
degree of Understanding was discerned, had been 
awakened spiritually, and after death was at once 
raised to the fourth phase of Life. Dives, after 
death, entered the second phase, where he had re- 
morse and pain, the result of his intensified con- 
sciousness of his own moral discord. 2 He is repre- 
sented as seeing, through perception awakened in 
the third s} r stem of thought-vessels, that higher 
degree of life ; but between him and the people in 
the fourth phase (one of the higher creations), 4 a 
great gulf was fixed.' He desired that the beggar 
who had attained that rest should be sent to re- 
deem his (Dives ') brethren, but was shown that 
unless they were sufficiently pure to obey the law 
they would be incapable of comprehending spirit- 



iLukexvi: 19-31. 

2 In the second phase of life the wicked that were finally 
annihilated, at the time in which the Flood destroyed those in 
this world, were spared remorse and pain, as the law had not 
entered, emphatically condemning that which is contrary to 
God : neither had there been nnvailed the fifth degree of men- 
tal force which in the next phase of existence sustains and 
emphasizes the mind's consciousness of its own moral discord. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 183 

ual Wisdom and Power, and so 'would not have 
been persuaded, even though one had arisen from 
the dead'. 

Referring to the first epoch of Light St. Paul 
says, that those who 4 fell away ' after having re- 
ceived the heavenly gift [spiritual discernment] 
could not renew it unto repentance ; l that is, if 
their love for Truth was not sufficient to prevent 
their returning to a material state of mind, neither 
would it be sufficient to win them again therefrom, 
until in the second phase of life a cloud was dis- 
pelled from their minds. 

Passing downward from the original Nucleus 
the fourfold volume of Creative force which pro- 
duced conscious life in a lower phase was separ- 
ated before reaching its terminus, and, proceeding 
in four streams, produced life upon four parts of 
a globe. In the highest series, the Caucasian race — 
referring to the mystical Body of man — was created 
in that portion of the third phase of our planet 
corresponding to the western part of Asia ; the 
Mongolian race, in that corresponding to the 
eastern part; the Ethiopian, in the portion corre- 
sponding to Africa ; and the American, or so-called 
" red " race, in that corresponding to the western 
hemisphere. A mystical Body of women and also 
the four series of lower conscious life were created 

1 Heb. vi : 4-6. 



184 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

upon each of the four corresponding portions of 
the second phase of a planet. 1 

In Revelation iv : 7, the original four races, they 
being represented by the highest members thereof, 
are referred to in symbolic language, denoting the 
difference in the races in this world, as follows : 
" The first beast was like a lion " (signifjnng 
strength, power, — the Caucasian race : that race 
in this world is spoken of in the book of Revela- 
tion as " the great river Euphrates " ; the race ex- 
ceeded originally not in numbers, but in capacity 
for intellectual development), " and the second 
beast like a calf [signifjdng submission, — the 
Ethiopian race], and the third beast had a face as 
a man [the Mongolian race], and the fourth beast 
was like a flying eagle" [the American race]. 
Difference of color in the races exists in only the 
two lower phases of life. 2 

Before the Christian era spiritual perception 
was awakened in prophets belonging to the red 

1 At each, or at any one, of the four parts of a globe, species 
of the lower conscious life originally existing there might after- 
ward become extinct. 

2 Offspring of intermarriage between races are linked by 
their guardian angels to the race to which the mother belongs, 
and are united with it upon entering the third phase of life. 
In that phase and also in the succeeding ones, each of the four 
races occupies its own quarter of the creation. Moreover, in 
those phases the water is distributed, in rivers, and— in all — 
composes, of the surface, only one-fourth of each quarter of the 
creation. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 185 

race. The latter received the Law : moreover, the 
fifth degree of Wisdom was manifested, in order 
that there should be a number raised, directly 
after death, to the fourth phase of life, which 
should form two prime degrees and a grand Head 
in the mystical Body of that race. At the time, 
B. c. 2000, in which the aforesaid Wisdom was 
made known, 1 those that did not accept it withdrew 
from the others and drifted to different parts of 
the country. The descendants of these tribes 
were an ignorant people. In the last day of the 
epoch of Light such as remained of the civilized 
nations were overpowered by the elements. Hence 
there was left only the ignorant race such as was 
found here by the early explorers. (In the 
western hemisphere, at the time in which the civi- 
lized nations were overpowered by the elements, 
certain species of domestic animals — those not 
afterward found upon that part of the globe — 
became extinct. If the people who, ages before, 
separated from civilization took with them animals 
belonging to the aforesaid species, the numbers 
were not sufficient to insure multiplication.) 

During the first epoch of Light multitudes from 
the red race in the second phase of life were given 
knowledge of the spiritual Wisdom through the 

1 At the end of 666f years, the spiritual Wisdom was with- 
drawn [see page 181], but civilization still existed in that 
race. 



1 8G A NEW DEPA R TUBE. 

ministry of such of the followers of Jesus as had 
died before his second coming. 1 In the last day 
of the epoch the aforesaid people of the red race 
were raised to their final state, together with those 
of the other races. At that time a glorious vis- 
ion appeared throughout the western hemisphere. 
There followed earthquakes at divers places, great 
volcanic action, and fire and inundations, killing 
of the civilized nations the remnant that had been 
left of those overpowered by " tribulations " pre- 
ceding the last day of the epoch and caused by 
forces that affected the western hemisphere as well 
as the eastern. These people, together, took the 
place of those, belonging to the same race, that 
were raised from the second phase. 

Within every 166| years the creative channels 
of some of the expressions in sundry species 
belonging to the series of lower conscious life, — 
species of four-footed animals, and of fowls and 
insects, — are given when detached from their first 
manifestation another one, in a section of the sec- 
ond phase. These expressions are changed to par- 

1 Through the break thus caused in the mental cloud at that 
part of the second phase, the higher mental force passed to the 
civilized nations of the red race in this world, bur without 
awakening the people spiritually. Thus they then had great 
mental power and great will-power. When, at the end of the 
epoch, they all had entered the second phase of life, the mental 
cloud in that part of the phase was thereby increased to its 
ordinary volume. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 187 

take of each succeeding stratum of substance, at 
the same time with the people who during that 
period had occupied the section. 1 Other channels 
recede to the original Nucleus when their first 
expression dies. In each of the six lower series in 
this world some of the species (among them, sun- 
dry of those that are essential in material life) are 
not found in other phases. Each succeeding 
series of the seven partakes of the force that pro- 
duced the preceding ones ; thus in this world sub- 
stance from each can aid either in nourishing or 
in restoring the others. 

The compound channels belonging to the guar- 
dian angels of the original human life created upon 
the planets of our solar universe were the means 
of separating the increase of creative Light. That 
force then produced a continuation of the heavenly 
Jerusalem. 2 To this continuation the said angels 

1 Of a body belonging to the series of conscious life, that 
portion which in this world is composed of liquids, is, in any 
other phase of existence, simply force. Refer to page 101, Note 
2. A spiritual body can be raised to a higher phase of creation 
by the action of that complete stream of force, of which the 
body is the terminus and the expression. 

2 A continuation of the seventh phase was formed by means 
of the guardian angels of members in the fourfold grand Head 
to which belonged Enoch, and a corresponding member from 
each of the other three races on this planet. The very first 
continuation of the seventh and sixth phases of substance was 
of course formed by means of the guardian angels of the people 
in the first solar universe. The details given above apply 
equally to every grand creation. 



188 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

were transferred. The Light continuing to pass 
across their channels formed a continuation of the 
fifth stratum of substance : thereon were created the 
same number of " ministering spirits " as were orig- 
inally produced in the fifth phase of life. Then, 
b} T means of the compound channels of these last- 
created angels, a fourth phase of creation was pro- 
duced in that continuation, and they were trans- 
ferred thereto. Thence, the Light passed down- 
ward and graduall}" formed another solar universe. 
The guardian angels of that innumerable multitude 
of people composing a grand division from each 
planet that is inhabited in our solar universe 
belong to the sixth and seventh phases in one 
series of continuations : thereto, the said people 
eventually arise. Another series is begun beyond 
the first, by means of the guardian angels of the 
people composing the next grand division. The 
plan just stated is followed in each series of con- 
tinuations; hence below each, is formed a solar 
universe. The early followers of Christ belong to 
another series. They arose to the two higher 
phases thereof in the last da} r of the epoch. 1 Jesus 
said in one of his messages (addressing those that 
lived in the first reign of Truth) : " To him that 

1 To the said phases arose also, from the other inhabited 
planets in this solar universe, the people that had received, 
within the same period, perception of the highest degree of the 
spiritual Wisdom. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 189 

overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my 
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set clown 
with my Father in his throne." * That series of 
continuations together with the three series having, 
respectively (upon their two higher phases), the 
guardian angels of the people that were in the 
three grand divisions — one in each, the third phase, 
the fourth, and the fifth — at the dawn of the Chris- 
tian era ; and with the three to which will even- 
tually arise the people composing the three suc- 
ceeding divisions, make the seven series of contin- 
uations that are begun within a period of nearly 
seven thousand years of life in a solar universe. 

From the original seventh and sixth strata of 
substance will eventually extend, both eastward 
and westward, two parallel double rows, each 
double row consisting of continuations, respect- 
ively, of the seventh phase of creation and the 
sixth. Downward, toward the north from one 
double row, and toward the south from the other, 
will extend the fifth and fourth phases of series of 
continuations, and below them the solar universes 
belonging to grand creations. Parallel with the 
original rows and at certain equal distances, will 
eventually be formed,on the north and on the south, 
secondary rows, from which the lower phases of 
series of continuations, and also the solar universes, 
will extend on the side toward unoccupied space. 
1 Ilcv. iii: 21. 



190 A NEW DEPA R TUBE. 

There being infinite Space, the original grand cre- 
ation will be reproduced, at intervals, forever. 
Moreover, there will be an increase in the surface 
of the original Nucleus corresponding to the space 
included in the continuations of the seventh phase 
of creation. 

Thought arising to the said Nucleus from the 
innumerable multitude of guardian angels of the 
people composing a grand division from every 
planet that is inhabited in our solar universe in- 
creased Light more rapidly, so that it formed a 
grand creation in less time than was required for 
the original one. The first one of seven already 
referred to (having three strata of force at each 
solar orb, and the force that proceeded to planets 
designed for habitation, containing the outlines 
of five series of prospective conscious life) was 
finished at the time, A. d. 333s, 1 in which all the 
people composing the highest fourfold degree of 
the first grand division — that is, the one com- 
pleted in the fifth phase just before the dawn of 
the Christian era — had reached their final state. 
Then upon the planets designed for habitation in 
the solar universe belonging to that grand cre- 

1 Fractions denote the number of months after the 1st of 
January in the year mentioned. As a grand degree from a 
lower phase of life enters a higher degree at the end of every 
333$ years, the entire grand division had reached its final state 

A. D. 1000. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 191 

ation, a current of force was caused to arise from 
the Light that contained the human outlines. 

[The upward current of one portion of the men- 
tal force that proceeds to angels in the third and 
succeeding phases of a grand creation and is in- 
creased by their mental activity, — the upward cur- 
rent passing across the beginning of their own 
stratum of Spirit and also of lower ones, then has 
expression in the material universe. That pro- 
ceeding from the angels in the third phases of 
life, 1 after passing through the grand centre of the 
inhabited planets of a solar universe, has expres- 
sion, in their atmosphere, as nitrogen — a current 
devoid of life-sustaining power ; that from angels 
in the next higher phase, the fourth, is somewhat 
less passive in quality. It proceeds through cre- 
ative channels to uninhabited orbs, and outside of 
channels to the said orbs 2 (excepting suns) ; that 
from angels in the fifth phase passes, outside of 

1 From the second stratum a corresponding current proceeds 
to the atmosphere of inhabited planets from only such people 
as are at-one with God. That current is somewhat different in 
quality from the very much greater, and accompanying, volume 
passing from the third stratum, but its proportional amount 
may be too small for the difference to be detected. 

2 To sundry uninhabited orbs (see page 119) proceeds a pro- 
portion of force from a higher stratum of Spirit than the 
fourth. Currents of force that proceed outside of creative 
channels to the orbs in a solar universe are of much less vol- 
ume during the early ages, before multitudes from the planets 
arise to the higher phases of life. 



192 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



creative channels, to the suns — an electric current, 
causing fire — and to the inhabited planets, where 
being modified in passing through their atmosphere 
it has expression as oxygen ; that from angels in 
the sixth and seventh phases proceeds, through 
creative channels, to the inhabited planets and 
through compound channels to the conscious life 
thereon. Thus is constantly circulated and re- 
plenished an infinite volume of force which passes 
to solar orbs and is governed, and the three higher 
degrees vitalized, by an omnipotent Creator — the 
grand life-giving Power and ruling Power of the 
Universe.] 

Three hundred thirty-three and one-third years 
before Abraham, even after the Flood, the second 
series of continuations was begun by means of the 
guardian angels of the people belonging to the 
second grand division. (These people born after 
the Flood belonged to the second series of con- 
tinuations, because the original human life — with 
the ' remnant ' already mentioned — , and the people 
annihilated at the time of the Flood, represented 
the three fourfold prime degrees of the first grand 
division. In each series of continuations, within 
the time, 1,000 years, required for the production 
of a grand division, a seventh phase of creation is 
formed by means of the guardian angels of mem- 
bers composing the fourfold grand Head of that 
division. Members of a grand Head are not nee- 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 193 

essarily of the earlier generations in the division. 
The first grand division is an exception to the 
general rnle. It contained of the Caucasian race 1 
the followers of Abraham in its two higher prime 
degrees — in place of the people, of the same race, 
annihilated at the time of the Flood — , and all the 
people originally created upon the planet, together 
with a remnant of their descendants, in the other 
fourfold degree. Hence, in this exceptional case, 
only two fourfold degrees of the grand division 
were completed by material multiplication, the 
other degree having been composed of the original 
human life and the c remnant', including Enoch 
and Abel. The first division thus represents a 
period of only 66 6 f years instead of 1,000 ; there- 
fore the second one was begun 333^ years before 
the end of the second millenary of material life in 
this solar universe. The members of the grand 
Head to which Abraham belonged, ascended to 
that continuation of the seventh phase to which 
Enoch arose.) 2 

The solar universe belonging with the second 
series of continuations was finished at the time — 
A. D. 1333 i — in which the people composing the 

1 The other races are referred to on page 177, Note 3. 

2 See page 187, Note 2. To the rule of having but one four- 
fold grand Head in a grand division, there is an exception in 
the division just mentioned ; and one or more exceptions occur 
in a reign of Truth. 

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194 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



highest fourfold degree of the second grand divis- 
ion (which occupied the fourth phase at the dawn 
of the Christian era) had reached their final state. 
The aforesaid number of years, added to the 2,333 £ 
that had elapsed from the time in which that 
series was begun until the day of Christ, gives 
3,666 f years for the production of the grand crea- 
tion. As the people composing the three either 
prime or grand prime degrees of a division are 
created within 1,000 years, 666 f years after Abra- 
ham, 1 — even at the time of David, B. c. 1333£, — 
the third series of continuations was begun. The 
solar universe belonging therewith will have been 
finished when the people composing the highest 
fourfold degree of the third division (the one that oc- 
cupied the third phase at the dawn of the Christian 
era) shall have reached their final state, which will 
be A. D. 2333J, added to the 1,333* years B. c. 
make 3,666§ } T ears from the time in which that 
grand creation was begun. The fourth series was 
begun B. c. 166f : allowing the 3,666| years for 
the production of the grand creation, it will have 
been finished A. D. 3500. (At the dawn of the 
Christian era, people from a section of the second 



1 The people composing the second grand division were thus 
born within the time dating from the Flood until 66Gf years 
after Abraham. Hence certain members belonging to the grand 
Head of the second division could have lived at the time of 
Abraham. Refer to page SO, Note 1. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 195 

phase of life entered the third, completing there 
the third grand division. The other section in 
the second phase had just become filled, having 
been begun 166§ years earlier. The people in 
this latter section formed the first half of the first 
degree belonging to the fourth grand division. 
Hence, the fourth series of continuations was 
begun b. c. 166|, instead of 333ij-. This devia- 
tion from the general order is due to the fact [see 
pages 173-4] that during the 333^ years after Abra- 
ham, only one-half of a degree belonging to a grand 
division was formed ; although in every other case, 
after the first millenary of material life [see page 
168], an entire degree was completed during a 
like number of years. If within the 333^ years 
just mentioned both parts of a degree had been 
formed, there would have been, ready to enter the 
third phase of life at the dawn of the Christian 
era, one-half of an additional degree besides the 
three complete grand divisions. Had that addi- 
tional ' half ' existed then, it — following the general 
order of progression — would have caused the first 
half of the highest degree in the fifth phase to 
enter the sixth, before the people composing that 
degree had received the necessary spiritual 
Wisdom, the latter not having been manifested 
until the day of Christ. During the first half of 
the 333-J years B. C, there was being filled in the 
second phase that section which contained of a 






196 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

degree the half that afterward completed the third 
grand division. Hence, the fourth division was 
not begun until B. c. 166§, as already stated.) 

Following the order of the general perio'ds 
already given, it will be found that the fifth series 
was begun A. D. 833 J, and that the grand creation 
will have been finished in 4500. The sixth was 
begun in 1833 J, and the grand creation will have 
been completed A. D. 5500. The grand creation to 
which belong the early followers of Jesus was 
begun at the time in which were born the elder 
members of that mystical Body. 1 

The second spiritual Day, or epoch, will con- 
tinue 333^ years after the beginning of the third 
millenary A. d. 2 At the end of that period will 
come another so-called ' end of the world ', when 
people who are at-one with God will be changed 
from the material and raised to their final state ; 
those governed by the Magog, or spirit of anti- 
christ, will be overpowered by fire ; the remnant, 
those governed by the original material under- 
standing, will be left, to continue in materiality. 
In the latter days of the second epoch of Light, 
all books explanatory of the infinite Wisdom will 

1 Until all the people born upon onr planet shall have 
reached their final state, the Son of God will dwell upon that 
continuation of the seventh phase which belongs to this grand 
creation ; then be will ' sit upon his own throne'. 

2 The authority for this statement and the following ones is 
given in the next chapter. 






A NEW DEPARTURE. 197 

be destroyed by the spirit of intolerance which 
will then prevail. Thus after the end of the 
epoch the spiritual Understanding will be hidden, 
and a material construction will be again placed 
upon the Scriptures. Then will come the third 
Night. 1 It is reckoned for three hundred and fifty 
years. 2 The time is referred to. in the symbolic 
language of St. John, as forty-two months (three 
years and a half), during which 'the holy city 
[the spiritual Understanding] shall be trodden 
underfoot by the Gentiles '. 3 Toward the end of 
that period spiritual perception will be awakened 
in two prophets. They will testify of Truth 
during a little less than three years and a half, 
even " a thousand two hundred and threescore 
days ". When they shall have finished their tes- 
timony, people governed by error will rise up 
against them and kill them. 'Their dead bodies 
shall lie unburied three days and a half.' Then 
the Spirit of life from God shall reanimate their 
minds, " change " their bodies, and, arising, carry 
them up to Heaven in a cloud of light. ' In the 
same hour there will be a great earthquake, when 
a multitude shall be slain. The remnant will be 
affrighted and will give glory unto God.' 4 At 

1 The first one was before the Christian era. 

2 Although two prophets shall arise, nearly three years and a 
half before the end of that period. 

3 Rev. xi:2. 4 Rev. xi : 3-13. 



198 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

that time the third reign of Truth will begin, 
which will be in (350+2333=) 2683. Spiritual 
discernment will then be awakened in every one 
in this world, and thus will be fulfilled the words 
of Scripture, namely, " This is the covenant that I 
will make with the house of Israel 1 after those days, 
saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their 
mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will 
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a 
people : And they shall not teach every man his 
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 
Know the Lord : for all shall know me, from the 
least to the greatest." 2 But after the first century 
of the epoch, one-fourth 3 of the people in each 
race will turn back to a material state of mind. 
The third reign of Truth will last 200 years. 
Hence the end thereof will be in 2883. Then 
those that are at-one with God will be changed 
from the material and raised to the fourth phase 
of life, instead of the sixth. The remnant will be 
overpowered by force of the highest degree. 4 

1 Referring to all other nations as well. 

2 Hebrews viii: 10, 11. 3 See page 214. 

4 As stated on page 119, Note 2, there are various qualities of 
force proceeding to the material universe. That of the seventh 
degree is, when unobstructed, an omnipotent power manifested, 
in the first epoch of Light, in miracles ; where it acted through 
the mediumship of minds raised above the material state 
through spiritual perception ; manifested also as a destructive 
element, — the most active quality of force, capable, when pro- 
ceeding in sufficient volume, of overwhelmiug the atmosphere, 






A NEW DEPA n TUBE. 1 99 

These people will enter the second phase, and will 
remain there fifty-one years. 1 Toward the latter 
part of that time, such of this number as are gov- 
erned by the Magog will partake of the second 
death and will then be awakened spiritually. 
They, together with all the people in the second 
phase, will enter the lowest section of the third in 
(51+2883=) 2934. After seventeen years the 
people in each grand degree will enter the next 
higher degree at the end of every following five 
and two-thirds years, so that a grand division shall 
have reached the next higher phase at the end of 
another seventeen years. For the last group aris- 
ing from the fifth phase of life, the period will be 
shortened two years. Hence, sixty-six years after 
the last number from the second phase shall have 
entered the third, they will have reached their 
final state. The design of God relative to the 

— an electric current, more powerful than that of the fifth 
degree. 

1 That is, until, among the people just mentioned as being 
raised to the fourth stratum of creation, members of a four- 
fold grand Head shall have reached the seventh phase. In 
some cases in Revelation the word 'hour' is used as a symbol 
for one hundred years. The words, " about the space of half 
an hour" symbolize fifty-one years. This number divided by 
three, gives the seventeen years during which the aforesaid 
'highest members' shall have remained in each the fourth 
phase of life, the fifth, and the sixth. The words here quoted 
(from Rev. viii: 1,) refer to a period mentioned on page 217 ; 
but they determine also the number of years just given. 



200 A NEW DEPASTURE. 

people born upon the planets of this solar universe 
will thus have been fulfilled A. D. 3000. 

[The following details will be unimportant for 
the casual reader : — At the time in which the last 
number of people from this world shall enter a 
section of the second phase, the period (the last 
166f years of the third millenary A. D.) will not 
have expired in which that section would have 
become filled. Hence these people will not form 
a separate 'half of a degree, but will finally 
join the one then occupying the other section, and 
at the end of the fifty-one years already referred to 
they both will enter the lowest section of the third 
phase of life, forming together the last half of the 
third degree in the last grand division. If the 
aforesaid people were to form a separate half degree 
it would make an additional one besides those of 
the grand division reckoned as being completed by 
the half degree that will have been finished 166f 
years before the end of the third millenary A. D. 
As stated on page 195, the fourth grand division 
was began B. a 166J. Allowing 1,000 years for 
the production of that one and of each of the 
two following, the last one of the series will 
have been finished at the time already mentioned. 
But the last half of the third degree in that divis- 
ion would be incomplete b} r itself, because it will be 
formed mainly in the third epoch of Light, when 
the people that " die in the Lord " shall be at once 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 201 

raised to the fourth phase of life, instead of enter- 
ing the second. Hence each of the two half 
degrees that finally join would be incomplete 
alone.] 

After the end of the third reign of Truth, con- 
scious life will have ceased upon the first phase of 
the planets in this solar universe. Therefore the 
conflicting element in the grand channel will be 
no longer replenished. The currents of force in 
this universe will then be held stationary for a 
time. 1 St. John refers to that period as follows : 
" I saw four angels [." to whom it was given to 
hurt the earth and the sea "] standing on the four 
corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the 
earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, 
nor on the sea, nor on any tree." 2 After fifty-one 
years, the people who shall have been " sealed " 3 
and raised to the fourth phase at the end of the 
third epoch will all have reached the heavenly 
Jerusalem. 4 At that time a volume of force will 

1 Hence, there will no longer be fire at the suns. 

2 Rev. vii:l, 2. 

8 Rev. viii : 3-17. Besides the "tribes of Israel", all other 
nations are referred to. See heading of the seventh chapter of 
Revelation. 

4 These people shall have reached their final state at the same 
time in which the members of the fourfold grand Head belong- 
ing to the group shall have ascended to the seventh stratum of 
creation. See page 199, Note 1. After material life ceases in 
a solar universe the time elapsing before all the people reach 
their final state is comparatively short. Refer to page 199. 



202 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

descend from the highest stratum of Spirit, and, 
rushing through the creative channels in this uni- 
verse, cause volcanoes in every orb. The same 
degree of force passing outside of creative channels 
and overwhelming the atmosphere will envelop 
each orb in names. The grand centres will then 
be overwhelmed, the conflicting element destroyed, 
and the first phase of the orbs thus dissolved— 
changed to its original force. All the people in 
the second phase of life will then enter the third, 
and the second stratum of creation will ' pass 
away '. The first and second strata of force, being 
no longer held separate, will unite. When the 
people leave the third phase of creation it will be 
dissolved into Light: the first and second strata 
will be engulfed therein. The volume of force 
containing these three strata will remain in its 
legitimate place. Creative channels will have then 
become stationary and will remain so until the solar 
universe shall be re-established. 

Referring to the time of Moses, the Scripture 
saith that the voice of Him who speaketh from 
Heaven, " then shook the earth : but now he hath 
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the 
earth only, but also heaven [referring in this case 
to the second and third phases]. And this word, 
Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those 
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, 
that those things which cannot be shaken [the 






A NEW DEPARTURE. 203 

higher creations] may remain." Hebrews xii: 
26, 27 ; refer also to Heb. i : 10-12. 

Before the last number of people from the 
planets of our solar universe shall have entered the 
fifth phase of life, the original " ministering spirits " 
will be again transferred to the fourth. They 
had been restored to the fifth, where they remained 
while their place in the preceding phase was filled 
by those born i lower than the angels \ When 
the aforesaid people (from the planets) shall have 
reached their final state, the Spirit of God will 
cause currents of force to arise again from the 
third stratum of Light in orbs belonging to this 
solar universe, and will create the fourfold mys- 
tical Body of man upon the third phase of 
every planet that is now inhabited. Then the 
second stratum of force will be again held 
separate and made substance. The lower series 
of conscious life will be created upon the 
second phase of the planets. When man is 
transferred to that phase, 1 the first stratum will 
be separated. The mineral and vegetable king- 
doms thereof will have been replenished. Currents 
of force will then be caused to arise in the first 
phase of every orb from which they now do, and 
the entire solar universe will be re-established : 
the general plan already stated will be repeated 

1 Thereon will be then created, in each of the four races, the 
mystical Body of woman. 



20-1 A XEW DEPARTURE. 

therein. The third system of thought-vessels will 
be again held dormant in the original ministering 
spirits transferred to the fourth phase of life ; 
higher spiritual Wisdom will be thus vailed from 
them, for two thousand } T ears after the material 
understanding arises. In the early ages will be 
gradually stored, in uninhabited parts of the globe, 
carbon for the use of future generations. 



A NEW DEPARTUBE. 205 



CHAPTER VII. 

INTERPRETATION OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 

At the time in which St. John received the 
Revelation, mental force from the highest phase 
of life overshadowed him, and, animating his third 
system of thought-vessels, held him in a spiritual 
trance. He then beheld a series of visions, and 
perceived the significance thereof according to the 
mental currents that passed downward to his brain. 
The first three chapters of the book of Revelation 
refer to the time in which St. John wrote : they 
will apply also, in a general way, to the second 
epoch of Light and to the third. Such explana- 
tion of this subject as has been given in preceding 
chapters is not repeated. 

The first vision that the Apostle beheld was of 
seven golden candlesticks, symbolizing the prin- 
cipal groups 1 of the mystical Body that contained, 
of the followers of Jesus, those whose final state 
was the sixth phase of life. Hence the grand Head, 
to which Jesus belonged, is not included in that 
1 See page 79, Note 2, 



206 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

number. In the midst of the golden candlesticks 
was a figure like unto the Son of man, having " in 
his right hand seven stars " — knowledge of, and, 
through the Heavenly Father, power to control, 
the degrees of mental force that illuminate those 
groups. The seven stars also typify the ministers 
of those degrees of force. The mental currents 
which accompanied this vision and pressed upon 
the brain of St. John, at first overpowered him, 
and he 4 fell as dead ', but was then quickened by 
the Spiritual force which can triumph over every- 
thing that is contrary to God. The higher Wis- 
dom existed before the beginning of things 
material, and will continue to exist after they 
shall have passed away. 

In the messages to the seven angels, or minis- 
ters of seven degrees of mental force, the minister 
of the highest degree is commended for labor and 
patience, and for hating the deeds of the Nicolai- 
tanes — those governed by the material understand- 
ing, which is called the " Gog " and is the original 
source of error. But the angel is reproved for 
leaving his first love [the degree of perception 
that he had received], and is warned that the first 
works must be done [the highest ministry must be 
fulfilled], or that candlestick [group of people] 1 

1 The ' seven churches', also, symbolize the grand groups in 
which the people composing the mystical Body were classed. 
See page 20. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 207 

could not' retain its place in the mystical Body. 
4 He that hath spiritual perception let him com- 
prehend what Truth saith unto the people. To 
him that overcometh material thought shall be 
given discernment of the infinite Wisdom which 
is in the midst of the paradise of God.' 

The second angel is commended, and assured 
that although poor [in spirit], he is rich [in Truth]. 
In that message Jesus speaks of the blasphemy of 
them that said they were Jews but were not ; i. e., 
said they were in union with God, but in reality 
worshipped self. He says that the spirit of error 
would cause some of the people belonging to that 
group to be cast into bondage that they might be 
tried, and they would have tribulation : but if 
they continued in perception and love of Truth 
until the death of their material nature, they 
would be given a crown of life, union with God ; 
a cipher, as it were, being then written in place 
of the material understanding, leaving only the 
unit — oneness with the Spiritual. Hence in the 
4 10th ' day they should be delivered into the glo- 
rious liberty of the children of God. " He that 
overcometh [the Magog — the spirit of antichrist — 
and giveth the honor to Him to whom it is due] 
shall not be hurt of the second death." 

The third angel, although having dwelt among 
them that were governed by error, had held fast 
the Truth which Jesus made manifest, and had not 



208 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

denied spiritual perception. But be is reproved 
for not laboring sufficiently to convert those that 
held the doctrine 1 of Balaam, which had cast 
a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, 
causing them to partake of thoughts sacrificed 
unto self. The angel was among those, also, that 
held the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, the original 
material understanding. Unless they repented, 
Truth would fight against them with a " two- 
edged sword" — the spiritual Understanding, de- 
structive to both the Gog and the Magog. 2 But 
to them who overcame that which is contrary to 
God should be given both discernment of the hid- 
den Wisdom and a pure understanding wherein is 
found a degree of mental force not sent earthward 
until Jesus had ascended into the Heavens and 
received his " new name " ; that is, a higher 
appreciation than he had before attained, of the 
Father's marvellous love, wisdom and power. 

The fourth angel is commended for his work in 
laboring to comprehend Truth, and for his work 
in the promulgation of Truth : the last labor is 
accounted greater than the first. Notwithstanding, 
he is reproved for suffering one that called herself 
a prophetess, to teach an erroneous doctrine which 
caused some of the servants of Christ to turn to 

1 Meaning the understanding of the power of material mind 
over matter. 
E The names ' Gog and Magog' will be found in Rev. xx: 8. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 209 

the Magog. Jesus said that such should be cast 
into great tribulation unless they repented ; for 
[in the next phase of life] Truth gives unto all 
people according to their works. He said, more- 
over, that [in the last day of the epoch] her child- 
ren [that is, her followers then living] should be 
killed. They partook, also, of the second death, 
after which the error that had blinded them was 
annihilated. Those who had not that doctrine 
were entreated to hold fast — until the second com- 
ing of Jesus — the spiritual Wisdom which they 
had received. They that overcame material per- 
ception and continued in Spiritual work Avere 
finally given a power over discord, even as that 
Avhich Jesus received from God ; for they had re- 
ceived the " morning star " — the light, the discern- 
ment of Truth, that had ascended above the hori- 
zon of error. 

To the fifth angel Jesus saith : " I know thy 
works, that thou hast a name that thou livest [in 
the Spiritual], and art dead" [to that which is 
material]. But the angel is reproved because his 
works were not perfect, some of the Wisdom re- 
ceived having nearly faded from memory. He is 
cautioned, therefore, to remember how he had 
received and heard, and to hold fast the knowl- 
edge, repenting of all negligence : otherwise, at 
the end of the epoch, he should be found unpre- 
pared. Jesus said that there were a few in that 
14 



210 A SEW DEPARTURE. 

group who had not defiled their understanding, 
and that they should walk with him, in purity, 
for they were worth}'. 

The sixth angel is commended for keeping the 
Truth delivered unto him. To him Jesus saith: 
" Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of 
Satan [those that worshiped self], * * * behold, 
I will make them to come and worship before thy 
feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because 
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also 
will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which 
shall come upon all the world " — in the latter days 
of the epoch, when, Truth having become obscured, 
many turned back into error. The angel is en- 
treated to hold fast the Spiritual knowledge which 
he had received, and is assured that those who 
overcame the material nature would be made 
pillars in the highest Understanding, and would 
be given the truth of the Creative Wisdom ; and 
the truth of the New Jerusalem, even the grand 
conception, or plan of all things, which was not 
made known until the Day of Christ. They should 
receive also the new mental force sent earthward 
by Jesus after he had ascended to his Father's 
throne. 1 

The seventh angel is rebuked for not being 

1 Hence the words addressed by Jesus to his disciples : 
" Greater works than these shall ye do ; because I go unto my 
Father." John xiv: 12. 



A NEW DEPA RTURE. 2 1 1 

zealous in the promulgation of the spiritual Wis- 
dom, and for feeling sufficiently righteous and en- 
lightened, thinking that he had need of nothing, 
and knowing not that then, in the sight of God, 
he was "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and 
blind, and naked". He is counseled to attain 
the knowledge that cannot be overpowered by 
Truth ; also, to be clothed with purity and love, 
for to such should be granted to sit with Jesus 
upon his throne. ' Let them that have discern- 
ment comprehend what the Spirit saith unto the 
people.' 

After this, the upward current of the mental 
force sent downward to the brain of St. John re- 
turned directly to the highest creation, thus raising 
his perception to that phase of life. In his own 
words, "A door was opened in heaven." He then 
beheld the Throne of God, and Him who dwells 
thereon ; and the beasts and the elders — i. e., seven 
angels in the head of each of the four grand mys- 
tical Bodies created upon the highest stratum of 
substance. He beheld, also, seven lamps of fire — 
typifying the degrees of mental force, or " Spirits 
of God", which illuminate the grand groups of the 
highest fourfold mystical Body, and from which 
spring the " seven stars ", or lesser degrees of force 
that pass to the grand groups in the sixth phase 
of life. 

The book in the hand of Him who sits upon the 



212 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

Throne represents the infinite Wisdom. 1 Mention 
of the writing in the inside refers to the Concep- 
tion, or plan, of things to come : the allusion to 
that on the back of the book has reference to the 
Creative Wisdom, — knowledge of its development 
from a beam of Light, and of its production of the 
Throne and the life thereon, — which Wisdom is 
back of the Conception, and produced and sustains 
it. Even the angels in the higher phases had not 
been given knowledge either of all tilings to come 
or of the origin and subsequent development of 
Intelligence. Hence the}' were not " able to open 
the book, neither to look thereon ". It pleased the 
Father that in Jesus should all fulness dwell. 2 
Therefore he — typified by a Lamb having seven 
horns [perception of all things pertaining to the 
several phases of life], and seven eyes [knowledge 
of the degrees of Thought, or " Spirits of God "] — 
" came and took the book ". Then they that were 
before the Throne sang " a new song ", having re- 
ceived from him the Wisdom that had been hidden 
from them. 3 Perceiving that eventually every 
one should be purified, they said : Thou hast re- 
deemed us 4 to God hy thy Truth, out of every 

1 Rev., chapter v. 2 Colossians i: 19. 

3 The 'four beasts' then had "eyes before and behind" [see 
heading of the 4th chapter of Rev.] ; that is, thought relative 
to both the future and the past. 

4 Referring to those born "lower than the angels", but event- 
ually arising to the sixth and seventh phases. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 213 

kindred, and tongue, and people and nation ; 
" And hast made us unto our God kings and 
priests : and we shall reign on the earth." Then 
St. John beheld multitudes " round about the 
throne " [those in the heavenly Jerusalem], " And 
every creature which is in heaven, and on the 
earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the 
sea " [meaning the angels that were in the seventh, 
sixth, fifth, and fourth phases], gave blessing and 
honor unto the Father and the Son. 

The Conception, or plan, of things to come is 
divided into seven parts : the explanation thereof 
is consequently called, 4 The opening of the seven 
seals.' A brief outline of six parts is given in the 
sixth chapter of Revelation. At the opening of 
the first seal there was shown to St. John the ad- 
vent of a second reign of the spiritual Understand- 
ing, typified by a white horse. He that shall sit 
thereon [one that shall arise at the dawn of the 
third millenary and be upheld by perception of 
the said Understanding] shall be given a crown of 
life [union with God] and shall go forth conquer- 
ing, and to conquer. The second prophecy is con- 
cerning an erroneous doctrine, the Magog, typified 
by a horse which is ' red \ Perception of that un- 
derstanding shall take peace from the earth, over- 
powering, and being overpowered by, spiritual 
thought. Then was shown the coming of a Night, 
or vailing of Truth, typified by a black horse. 



214 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

Within that time, heralding the approaching Dawn, 
a purer mental atmosphere will gradually arise, — 
higotiy, selfishness and wickedness, decreasing ; 
for in the third epoch of Light, spiritual discern- 
ment shall be awakened throughout this world. 
He that shall sit upon the black horse [one that 
shall arise in the aforesaid period] will bring 
purit} r and justice, one measure of good being 
given, and three measures of evil destroyed that 
it may " hurt not " the spiritual Love and Truth 
eventually to be manifested. The fourth prophecy 
is relative to the turning back into error of one- 
fourth 1 of the people, in each race, living in this 
world after the first century of the third reign of 
Truth, they following a false prophet and being 
finally destroyed from the earth. The false doc- 
trine arising in the third epoch is typified by a pale 
horse. Dissension, strife, and death, shall follow 
that understanding and its originator. At the 
opening of the fifth seal St. John perceived, in a 
vision, the people who for upholding Truth shall 
be slain, in the latter half of the third epoch, by 
those that shall be governed by error. After death 
the former people shall be raised at once to the 
fourth phase of life. " It was said unto them that 
they should rest yet for a little season ", until there 
should be united with them the " fellowservants " 
who, before the end of the epoch, should be killed 
1 Rev. vi : 8. Refer also to page 198. 



A NEW DEPARTURE 215 

even as they were. The sixth prophecy is con- 
cerning the end of the third reign of Truth. A 
volume of force rushing through the earth from 
the creative channel will then cause a great earth- 
quake, when 'all the mountains and islands shall 
be moved out of their places '. Force of the highest 
degree will pervade this stratum of Spirit outside 
of creative channels, and, enveloping the earth, 
obscure the light of the sun. The moon will ap- 
pear red, typifying the erroneous conception which 
shall have prevailed. Just before the people that 
shall have become at-one with God are changed 
from the material and raised to the fourth phase, 
the highest degree of force will overpower the 
remnant : the creative channels of this latter num- 
ber will be given expression in the second phase 
of life. The former people, raised to the fourth 
stratum of creation, will be there united with the 
number just mentioned as entering that phase of 
life directly after death. Fifty-one years after the 
end of the epoch these people shall have reached 
their final state. 1 In the heavenly Jerusalem they 
will form twelve groups in each race ; for besides 
those of the tribes of Israel, there was " of all other 
nations an innumerable multitude " in the. vision 
that St. John beheld. 2 He was told that they had 

1 Refer to page 201. 

2 Members of a fourfold grand Head belonging to this num- 
ber and arising to the seventh phase of life are mentioned on 
page 201, Note 4. 



216 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

come out of great tribulation, and should be before 
the throne of God forever. Rev., chapter vii. 

The seventh part in the Conception is a detailed 
account of the plan outlined in the sixth chapter 
of Revelation, and goes back to the beginning of 
the third millenary A. D. In the year 2000, one 
fourfold third 1 of the people occupying, in the 
second phase, the section that shall have then 
become filled will have become at-one with God ; 
of the Caucasian race the majority having in this 
life embraced the spiritual Understanding. The 
remnant (some of those that had died before the 
infinite Wisdom was manifested in this world), 
together with the majority of the number from 
the other races, will have been enlightened in 
the second phase of life through the ministry of 
the former people. Then, at the end of the 
first period of the epoch, the said number — a nrys- 
tical Body — shall be raised to the fourth phase of 
life. 2 Through the ' break ', so-called, thus caused 
in the mental atmosphere of the second phase, 
higher mental force will pass to this world, and 
upon entering the minds of those that are not 

1 That is, one-third from each of the four races. 

2 The second epoch is divided into three periods. The first 
one will end in the year 2000 ; the second, 16Gf years later ; 
the third will extend from the latter time until the end of the 
reign of Truth, a. r>. 2303. The end of each of these three 
periods will occur at the time in which a section of the second 
phase shall have became filled. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 217 

awakened spiritually, the "red horse" (the 
Magog) will appear. Fifty-one years after the 
aforesaid people shall have been raised from the 
second phase to the fourth, they will have readied 
their final state. In the symbolic words of St. 
John, " There was silence in heaven about the 
space of half an hour." x Then an angel [the 
highest member of the grand Head] 2 shall stand 
at the altar. 3 There shall be given unto him much 
incense [thanksgiving and praise] which will as- 
cend to that Head from all the members of the 
mystical Body [they having then reached their 
highest appreciation of the infinite Love and Wis- 
dom], and thence, " up before God." At that time, 
a volume of the highest degree of force will pass to 
the earth. Then to the seven angels that stand be- 
fore God — i. e., to ministers of the principal degrees 
of Spiritual thought in the highest phase — shall 
be given seven trumpets [ability to make manifest 
the power of the Infinite]. When the 'first angel 
should sound ', one of seven volumes of force will 
descend, rending the atmosphere at sundry parts of 
the globe. 4 The force will be in proportion to the 

1 Rev., chapter viii. Refer to page 199, Note 1. 

2 Only one race is here spoken of: the details refer to each 
one of the four. The aforesaid angel is mentioned also in 
Rev. xiv: 1. 

3 Signifying that the members of the grand Head shall have 
then reached the seventh phase of life. 
4 Such force as shall be caused to mingle, at the beginning 



218 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

number of people, one-third from each of the four 
races, that shall have been raised from the second 
phase to the fourth. One hundred fifteen and 
two-thirds years later, 1 those shall enter the 
third phase who had been in that section of the 
second from which the aforesaid people shall 
have been previously raised to the fourth stra- 
tum of creation. Within that period three man- 
ifestations of invisible power will occur in this 
world. The second of seven volumes of force 
already referred to will be cast into the sea, and 
become as blood ; 2 the third will proceed to a part 
of the rivers and to the fountains of waters, caus- 
ing them to become bitter. The fourth will pass 
to the planets that are uninhabited, forming salt 
over a part of the surface of each orb ; conse- 
quently light will be no longer generated at those 
places. The force proceeding therefrom cannot be 
burned when it reaches the sun, and a part of the 
sun, also, will become dark. At the end of the 
first 166§ years of the third millenary A. D., the 
other section of the second phase will have become 
tilled. One fourfold third of the people belonging 

of this stratum of Spirit, with the currents that proceed to 
conscious life will then be manifested as blood. 

1 This number, added to the fifty-one just mentioned, com- 
pletes the 166f years. 

-Any of this class of manifestations will be merely as evi- 
dence of the existence of a supernatural power, and will be 
soon dispelled. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 219 

thereto — that number being then at-one with God 
— shall be raised to the fourth stratum of creation. 1 
The fifth volume of force Avill be mental, and will 
proceed, for " five months ", 2 to the aforesaid section 
of the second phase, holding dormant the first 
system of thought-vessels in the people that shall 
be governed by the Magog — the spirit of antichrist. 
Their thoughts will react upon the third system ; 
they will then behold images contained in discord- 
ant mental currents passing through that system 
and thence through a creative vessel that proceeds 
to the eye. The five months also symbolize the 
term of years which shall elapse from the time 
(a. d. 2166) in which that section shall have be- 
come filled, until those who had occupied it shall 
have entered the third phase of life. The number 
is then called five thousand ; dividing it by thirty 
(there being that number of days in a 4 month') 
brings 166f . At the end of that time, which will 
be the end of the third, and last, period of the 
epoch, the first section will have been again filled. 
One fourfold third of the people belonging to it 
will be then raised to their final state, together 
with multitudes from this world. At that time, 
A. D. 2333, one-third 3 of the people from each of 

1 This event marks the end of the second period of the epoch. 
At that time the people from the first section will enter the 
third phase of life, as just stated. 

2 Rev., chapter ix. 8 Rev. ix: 18. 



220 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the four races in this world, that number being 
then governed by the Magog, will be overpowered. 
Their creative channels will be given expression 
in the aforesaid section of the second phase of life, 
taking the place of those raised therefrom to the 
sixth stratum of creation. Thus the infinite Wis- 
dom shall be again vailed from this world. 1 

When a multitude of people in this phase of 
life are overpowered by the highest force, it is 
called a " woe ". Hence at the end of the second 
reign of Truth, one woe shall have passed. 2 " And, 
behold, there come two woes more hereafter ", one 
occurring just before the beginning of the third 
epoch ; 3 the other, at the end of that reign of 
Truth. 

In 2166f, — that is, eight months after the 1st 
of January in that year, — even at the time in which 
the fifth volume of force shall proceed to the section 
of the second phase that shall have then become 
filled, one fourfold third of the people belonging 

1 See page 163, where reference is made to the vailing of 
Truth at the end of the first epoch of Light. 

- The people who shall occupy the section in the second phase 
to which will proceed the fifth volume of force, will have be- 
come purified and will enter the third phase of life at the time 
in which the first "woe" shall occur. Rev. ix: 1-12. People 
previously raised to the fourth stratum of creation from a sec- 
tion of the second phase are of course not included in state- 
ments relative to those entering the third phase of life from 
one of the aforesaid sections. 

3 Rev. xi : 13, 14. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 221 

to that section will be raised to the fourth phase, 
as already stated. Fifty-one years later, hence 
115| years before the end of the epoch, they will 
have reached their final state. 1 The sixth volume 
of force, which will be mental, will proceed down- 
ward from them and from 'the sixth angel who 
has the trumpet'. Passing through the ' break ' in 
the mental atmosphere of the second phase of life 
it will proceed to the four races in this world, en- 
tering the minds of one-third of the people in each 
race without awakening them spiritually ; hence 
they will be then governed by the Magog. ' Four 
angels [streams of mental force] will have been 
bound in the great river Euphrates ' — the white 
race, the volume of Truth which shall have pro- 
ceeded to those awakened spiritually in that race, 
having, in a measure, held in check the erroneous 
doctrine, until at that time the mental currents 
passing to those who have not discernment of the 
infinite Wisdom will have become so increased that 
the Magog will assert itself more forcibly. In the 
words of Scripture, 4 The four angels will be loosed 
which are prepared for an hour, and a day, and a 
month, and a year, for to slay the third part of 
men.' The said periods, together, denote the 115 J 
years which will elapse before the end of the epoch. 
The hour symbolizes the number one hundred ; and 

1 In the ninth chapter of Revelation, after the allusion to 
the first "woe ", the narrative goes back to this period, 



222 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

the clay, month, and year, each symbolizes one hun- 
dred. That represented by the word ' day ' is to 
be divided by twenty-four, as twenty-four hours 
make a day ; and, following the same rule, that 
represented by the word 4 month ' is to be divided 
by thirty ; that represented by the word ' year ' by 
twelve. The numbers thus obtained added to the 
one hundred that is symbolized by the word i hour' 
make 115f . (A fraction, one-sixth, which remains 
is ignored.) The volume of active force which 
will overwhelm the atmosphere at certain parts of 
the globe in the last day of the second epoch is 
typified by an army of horsemen which shall kill 
" the third part of men ". People governed by the 
original material understanding and left in this 
world are referred to as " the rest of the men which 
were not killed by these plagues jet repented not 
of the works of their hands "- 1 The number that 
shall have become at-one with God within the first 
166 § years of the third millenary will include a 
grand Head in each race. In the Caucasian race 
the highest member of that Head — he is spoken of, 
in the sixth chapter of Revelation, as sitting upon 

1 In Rev. xvi: 19, the words, "The great city was divided 
into three parts," not only symbolize the three understandings 
(see page 17), but also refer to the people that shall be living 
in this world just before the end of the second epoch. One- 
thir.l of (he number will be raised to a higher phase of life ; 
another third will be overpowered ; the remnant will be left, 
to continue in a material state. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 223 

a white horse l — will be borne earthward in the last 
day in the second epoch; even as Jesus was, at the 
end of the first one. This prophet is represented 
also as having one foot upon the sea and the other 
on the earth ; 2 that is, he shall minister unto peo- 
ple in this phase of life, and then unto those in 
the second. St. John beheld in the hand of that 
prophet a little book, open — i. e., during his min- 
istry the conception of all things to come shall be 
fully made known to them that are at-one with 
God ; and seven thunders shall utter their voices : 
in other words, the Creative Wisdom shall be man- 
ifested. St. John was commanded to " seal up 
those things which the seven thunders uttered, 
and write them not". Mention of the writing on 
the back of the book held by Him who sits upon 
the Throne, and allusion to the seven thunders, 
are the only references, in the book of Revelation, 

1 Refer to page 213. This prophet will promulgate the 
spiritual Wisdom in the beginning of the second period of the 
epoch, even at the dawn of the third millenary. He will have 
a fuller, more complete discernment of the infinite Wisdom 
than that previously manifested in the second epoch of Light, 
and moreover, will be given power over the creation. The 
same prophet is referred to, in connection with the last day of 
the epoch, in Rev. xiv: 14 ; and xviji: 1. 

2 Rev., chapter x. The word 'sea' is sometimes used to 
denote the second phase of life. The second verse in the 
said chapter signifies also that in the last day of the epoch 
this prophet shall be visible in the second phase of life and 
then in this world. 



224 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

to a knowledge of the origin and the seven stages 
of developement of the Creative Wisdom. St. 
John was caused to partake of all spiritual Wis- 
dom. Then the material understanding became 
distasteful to him. He was shown l both the 
length of time in which the Understanding, or 
AYisdom, of God should reign, and what number 
of people should be given perception of it ; and, 
moreover, that there should be a period (the third 
Night), reckoned for three hundred and fifty years, 
when spiritual Light should be hidden. At the 
end of that time, ' in the days of the voice of the 
seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be 
finished ' ; that is, when the seventh volume of 
force shall descend, even at the beginning of the 
third epoch of Light, spiritual discernment will be 
awakened in every one in this world. Not long 
before the dawn of that third 4 Day ', two prophets 
shall arise, representing the spiritual Love and 
Truth — a Love that reproves self-love, and a Truth 
that makes error manifest. They shall be given 
power over all things until they shall have fin- 
ished their testimony. Then those governed by 
error will rise up against them and kill them. 
When, after three days and a half, they shall be 
reanimated and carried up to Heaven will come 
the second " woe ", a multitude of people being 
then slain in an earthquake caused by the highest 
iRev., chapter xi. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 225 

force. After this, 4 the seventh angel will sound'— 
i. e., a volume of mental force will proceed to this 
world, awakening spiritual discernment in all, and 
4 the kingdoms of this world shall become the 
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ'. 1 

To go back to the second epoch of Light : In 
the year 2000, from that section of the second 
phase which shall have then become filled, one 
fourfold third of the people — a mystical Body, 
born anew through spiritual discernment — will be 
" caught up " to the fourth phase, and fifty-one 
years later will enter their final state. 2 Three 
hundred and fifty years are called, in symbolic 
language, 6 forty-two months,' ' three years and a 
half ' ; and also, " a time, and times, and half 
a time." The words, " A thousand two hundred 
and threescore days," when used with reference 
to the longer period, signify seventeen years less 
than three hundred and fifty, 3 even three hundred 

1 Refer to page 198. The beginning of the third reign of 
Truth is reckoned from the time in which spiritual discernment 
shall be awakened in every one in this world, although the 
two prophets shall arise nearly three years and a half earlier. 
Hence, strictly speaking, the third Night will be about three 
years and a half less than three hundred and fifty, but it is 
always reckoned for the latter number of years. 

2 Rev., chapter xii. Refer also to pages 216-7. The term 
used to signify this mystical Body of people, also typifies the 
spiritual Understanding. 

3 A thousand two hundred and threescore days are of course 
eighteen days less than three years and a half; but when ignor- 

15 



226 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



and thirty-three. Thus, spiritual discernment shall 
be sustained in this world three hundred and 
thirty-three years (and four months) after the 
said number of people shall be raised to the fourth 
phase of life, — signifying in what year the second 
epoch of Light shall end. 

In the year 2000 the higher mental force will 
descend through the break in the mental atmos- 
phere of the second phase of life and upon enter- 
ing the minds of those in this world that are not 
awakened spiritually, the " red dragon " will arise. 
His tail [the terminus of the defiled mental cur- 
rents] 1 shall cast to the earth one-third of the stars ; 
i. e., caused to be governed by an erroneous doc-, 
trine, that number of people, who otherwise would 
have become at-one with God. Then, 4 there will 
be war in heaven ' — meaning in this case the 
second phase of life — , Spiritual force casting out 
the defiled currents which otherwise would govern 
by the Magog those that shall be left in that sec- 
tion of the second phase from which one fourfold 



ing the fractions in the sum, the number that remains is seven- 
teen. This latter number is the one used when referring to 
the shortening of the second epoch from three hundred and 
fifty years after the beginning of the third millenary a. d. (o 
three hundred thirty-three and one-third. The latter period 
will bring the end of the epoch at the same time in which a 
section of the second phase shall have become filled. 

1 This defiled mental force will cause the "red horse" to 
appear. See pages 216-7. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 227 

third of the people shall have been raised. The 
aforesaid error will then proceed to this world and 
will oppose, and threaten to overwhelm, spiritual 
discernment: nevertheless, the latter will be sus- 
tained until the end of the epoch, nearly three 
hundred and fifty years. (Refer to page 226.) 
The erroneous doctrine will give rise to a flood l 
of material thought ; but the volume of men- 
tal force proceeding to those upon earth that 
shall be awakened spiritually will cause much of 
the error to subside until it is increased 115f years 
before the end of the epoch. 2 The Magog which 
will enter this world in the year 2000 is symbol- 
ized, also, by the beast which rose up out of the 
sea 3 — i. e., mental force passing through the break 
in the mental atmosphere of the second stratum of 
creation, and then becoming defiled, will give rise 
to another degree of the original error. The de- 
filed mental currents will give power to the Magog. 
This degree of error will be suffered to continue 
nearly 350 years (even 333^-), and will cause the 
death of some of them that uphold Truth. Those 
that have not perception of the infinite Wisdom 
will worship either the Gog or the Magog ; but an 
understanding which overpowers that which is 
spiritual, must, in turn, be overcome by the Spirit- 

1 In this case the word 'water' denotes the opposite of 
purity. 
2 Kefer to page 221, 8 Rev. xiii : 1-10. 



228 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

ual " Here is the patience and the faith of the 
saints," — they knowing that although error exists 
for a time, it, eventually, shall be overpowered by 
Truth ; for the infinite Wisdom is " Lord of lords, 
and King of kings ". They that have perception 
of it " are called, and chosen, and faithful " ; and 
shall overcome the material, loving not their lives 
unto the annihilation of that which is contrary to 
God. 

The seven heads of the beast l typify reigns of 
error which are referred to, also, as seven kings 
and as seven mountains. At the time in which 
St. John wrote, five of the kings had fallen; one 
reign having ended at the time of the Flood, when 
one of the heads of the beast was wounded 
to death, — sin having been then overpowered, 
but afterward it revived : in the words of Rev- 
elation, " His deadly wound was healed." 2 The 
second reign terminated at the time of Abraham ; 
the third, when Moses taught ; the fourth, at the 
reign of David ; the fifth, at the coming of Christ. 
Referring to the error which should prevail during 
the first millenary of the Christian era, St. John 
says : ' One king now is ' ; he adds, ' the other is 

1 Rev., chapter xvii. In Revelation the word 'beast' when 
used with reference to error signifies in some connections, 
merely the original material understanding ; and in other 
cases, the Magog. 

2 Rev. xiii : 3, 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 229 

not yet come [referring to that in the second 
millenary] ; and when he cometh, he must continue 
a short space : the beast is the eighth ', signifying 
that there will be still another thousand years be- 
fore the original material understanding shall be 
annihilated; for 4 the beast has ten horns'— i. e., 
error shall exist (in the second phase of life even 
when not in this world) in the ten centuries of 
the third millenary A. D. The ten horns are 
spoken of as ten kings, " which have received no 
kingdom as yet," but will each eventually reign 
" one hour with the beast ". (As stated on page 
199, Note 1, in some cases in Revelation the word 
'hour ' is used as a symbol for one hundred years.) 
The woman upheld by a scarlet-colored beast 
typifies the understanding 1 of the power of material 
mind over matter, which belief could not exist 
without the beast — the original material under- 
standing. The aforesaid belief arises in each of 
the eight reigns of error : in other words, ' the 
woman sitteth on seven mountains, and also upon 
the beast ' ; that is, the belief shall exist, also, in 
the third millenary. 2 The beast — the original 
material understanding — " was ", and, referring to 
the time in which Truth prevails, " is not " ; i. e., 
material beliefs and desires cease to them that have 

1 It is termed the "Magog" only when increased, during a 
reign of Truth. 

2 Refer to page 176, latter part of Note 1. 



230 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

perception of the infinite Wisdom ; " and yet is," — 
that understanding still reigns over those not 
awakened spiritualty. The ten horns of the beast 
(the periods of error arising from the original 
material understanding and existing in the third 
millenary of the Christian era) shall make war 
with the infinite Wisdom, but shall be eventually 
overcome ; and shall also oppose the Magog, so that 
only a remnant of those not awakened spiritually 
shall be governed by the latter understanding. In 
the last day of the second epoch, that " Babylon " 
Avill fall. 1 The prophet already referred to [see 
page 223] will be borne around the earth, which 
' will be lightened with his glory '. Force of the 
highest degree will then overwhelm the atmosphere 
at certain parts of the globe, causing the first 
"woe", and reducing to ashes the cities w r herein 
will have dwelt those that shall be governed by 
the Magog, and will have become rich and power- 
ful during a reign of selfishness and iniquity. 2 
The currents passing through the creative channel 
to those parts of the earth will then contain only 
the passive element, which is devoid of power to 
cause growth. Water will evaporate, — carbonic 
acid having been dispelled, — and those sections 

1 Rev., chapter xviii. 

2 It is people governed by the Magog who cause the 
death of those slain for upholding the spiritual Wisdom. 
Rev. xviii: 24. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 231 

will become deserts, where life shall never again 
exist. 

To return to the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, 
eleventh verse : Another beast, having two horns, 
shall come up out of the earth ; i. e., the degree of 
error which will arise in this world in the year 
2000 will enter the two " horns ", or sections, of 
the second stratum of creation as they are gradually 
filled by the people that shall have died within the 
333^- years which will elapse before the end of 
the epoch. The second beast 4 will speak as a 
dragon .' — i. e., that error will disseminate the de- 
filed mental currents. The existence of error in 
the next phase of life causes people in this world 
" to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound 
was healed " ; x for if there were no mental cloud 
in the second phase of existence, error in this world 
would be gradually destroyed by the fifth degree 
of mental force. The higher mental currents pass- 
ing downward to the second phase and becoming 
defiled by the ' second beast ' will do great won- 
ders, even causing active force to rend the atmos- 
phere of the earth. The cloud in the second phase 
of life will blind the people in this world, so that 
they will be deceived by miracles done by the 
Magog — the spirit of antichrist. Moreover, it will 

1 Reference in the book of Revelation to the beast which had 
the "wound" signifies the original material understanding— 
the Gog, in distinction from the Magog. 



232 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

cause them to " make an image to the beast, which 
had the wound by a sword" — i.e., to the original 
material understanding — , and will ' give life to the 
image [the Magog] that it shall speak ', [animate 
that understanding, so that it shall be promul- 
gated], and cause to be killed, those who oppose 
that doctrine. It will also cause all that are not 
awakened spiritually, to receive a " mark," — per- 
ception of either the Gog or the Magog, or the 
name of the beast [complete error], or the number 
of his name [two-thirds error] : the number is 
two-thirds of a mystical Body in the second phase 
of life. A mystical Body is represented by the 
number one thousand ; taking two-thirds thereof 
brings six hundred and sixty-six, the number of 
the " beast ". If two-thirds of the mental atmos- 
phere in both sections of the second phase of life 
were Spiritual, the fifth degree of mental force 
would not be sufficiently obscured so but that it 
would gradually purify the defiled mental currents 
in this world, and thus conscious error would finally 
cease. But two-thirds error in either section of 
the second stratum of creation, or one-third in each 
section, sustains the k beast '. The fraction ' two- 
thirds ' which remains to the number six hundred 
and sixty-six represents, of the mental atmosphere 
in the second phase of life, that portion which is 
defiled. 



A NE1V DEPARTURE. 233 

St. John beheld, 1 as in their final state, a vision 
of the people who shall be raised from the second 
phase in the year 2000. 2 [See page 225.] They 
will have received a degree of appreciation and 
joy that none but themselves can understand. In 
the vision St. John beheld an angel who, in this 
world, shall promulgate the spiritual Wisdom in 
the beginning of the third period of the epoch. 
He saw also the one that shall be borne earthward 
at the last day of that reign of Truth. A third 
angel showed him that those in this world who 
shall worship the Magog (the " image ") will be 
overpowered by fire at the end of tire epoch, when 
one i like unto the Son of man ' shall come with 
the Heavenly host in the glory of their Father. 
Then the aforesaid people and also others in the 
second phase of life, who shall be governed by the 
spirit of antichrist, — these people will have re- 
morse and will finally partake of the second death. 
The angel that shall be borne earthward at the last 
day of the second epoch will come upon a white 
cloud. At that time 4 the earth will be reaped', — 

1 Rev., chapter xiv. In this chapter (verses 1, 10, and 14) 
the highest member of a grand Head is spoken of as a Lamb, 
and as being like unto the Son of man. 

2 These people being, in the second epoch of Light, the 
" firstfruits " unto the infinite Love and Wisdom. In this 
connection allusion to "virgins" refers to people that are not 
united with the material understanding but are at-one with 
Christ. 



234 A NEW DEPARTURE 

i. e., the people that shall be at-one with God will 
be raised to their final state, — and c the clusters of 
the vine of the earth shall be gathered ' : in other 
words, people governed by the Magog will be 
overpowered by fire. Their compound channels 
will be given expression in the second phase of 
life, where the increased and defiled mental cur- 
rents will be ■ pressed out ' by a higher force " by 
the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs ", 
which when symbolizing da} r s signify over four 
years. After the said people shall have finally 
partaken of the second death they will be awakened 
spiritually. They, together with all that shall be 
in the same section, will enter the third phase at 
the time in which the other section shall have 
become filled. After the second reign of Truth, 
the higher spiritual Light will be vailed from this 
world until the dawn of the third ' Day '. Then, 
all that " die in the Lord " — that is, having per- 
ception and love of the in finite Wisdom — will be 
raised at once to the fourth phase of life, thus 
entering into "rest from their labors' 1 : their 
works [the people whom, in the last century of 
the epoch, they shall have enlightened] will follow 
them to the same stratum of creation. 1 

1 Reference, in the book of Revelation, and in some cases in 
St. Paul's writings, to entering into "rest" signifies that the 
people shall arise to the fourth phase of life directly after 
death. In Hebrews, chapter iv., St. Paul refers to a period 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 235 

111 a vision St. John beheld the people that 
shall be raised to the fourth phase from the second 
at the end of the first 166f years of the third 
millenary. They will sing the song of Moses (the 
fourth degree of understanding), and also the song 
of the Lamb ; 1 i. e., fifty-one years later, they will 
have reached their final state and have received 
their highest appreciation of the infinite Wisdom. 
At that time — which will thus be 115f years 
before the end of the second epoch, even at the 
time in which ' the four angels shall be loosed 
from the great river Euphrates ' 2 — one of seven 
volumes of force will pass to this world, 
entering the creative channels of the sinful, 3 and 
driving to the surface impurities in the body. 
The second volume will be caused to mingle, at 
the beginning of this stratum of Spirit, with the 

limited by the end of David's reign, after which, people (the 
disciples of Abraham) no longer entered, from this world, the 
fourth phase of life. See page 177. During the first epoch of 
Light — the Day of Christ [see Heb. iii: 7-19] — those that, after 
death, entered at once into "rest" were members of a grand 
Head. Such of the other followers of Jesus as had died before 
his second coming, entered the second phase of life and re- 
mained there as ministers until the end of the epoch. Refer 
to page 143. 

1 Rev., chapter xv. 2 See page 221. 

8 Refer to Rev., chapter xvi. In the aforesaid chapter, in 
the allusion to the seven volumes of higher force that shall 
proceed downward within the last llof years of the second 
epoch, they are referred to as expressions of "wrath". In 
such cases the word ' remorse' does not, of course, apply. 



236 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

currents of force proceeding to conscious life, and 
will then pass to the sea, which will become as 
blood. The third will proceed to the rivers and to 
the fountains of waters, affecting them in the same 
way. The fourth will pass to the sun, increasing 
the heat thereof. (These volumes of force will be 
soon withdrawn, and the effect which they cause 
will be then dispelled.) The fifth will pass directly 
to the second stratum of creation, obscuring the 
light of that phase of the sun. Moreover, higher 
mental currents will enter the thought-vessels of 
the people, intensifying their consciousness of 
their own moral discord. The sixth volume will 
be mental force, and will proceed to this world 
three years and a half before the end of the epoch, 
entering, without illuminating, the minds of mul- 
titudes of the Caucasian race. Material thought 
will then become so increased that pure, mental 
currents will subside in minds that are not at-one 
with God. The way of great error will be thus 
prepared. 1 " Three unclean spirits " will then 

1 In the first epoch a corresponding period, of fonr years, is 
referred to on page 150. In the book of Revelation are pas- 
sages that allude to more than one period. Thus, in chapter 
xiii., verses 5-8, besides the interpretation already given, the 
verses show that there shall be, preceding the end of the second 
reign of Truth, three years and a half during which mental 
currents passing to this world shall be greatly increased, and 
defiled. In several divisions of the latter part of the first 
epoch, with reference to the increase of the Magog [see pages 
148-154], the particular fraction is to be used — taking the same 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 237 

prevail : even — in the order in which they are 
mentioned in Revelation — (1) selfishness, the 
fountain-head of sin ; (2) the " Gog ", the 
original material understanding, the first cause of 
error, the beast which had existed from the founda- 
tion of the world, when ' the Lamb was slain ' ; 1 
and (3) the Magog, the spirit of antichrist. 

The seventh volume of force will envelop the 
earth at the last day of the epoch ; and currents 
will also pass through the creative channel, causing 
an earthquake " such as was not since men were 
upon the earth ". The cities of those governed by 
the Magog will fall. In those sections the atmos- 
phere will be overwhelmed. 2 In other sections the 
force will cause hail, which will fall upon the peo- 
ple that shall be left in this world. Those who, 
at the end of the epoch, shall be raised up to 
Heaven will have attained the righteousness of 
saints. Through their perception and love of the 
infinite Wisdom they shall be united thereto for- 
ever. (In an epoch of Light, of the people given 
discernment of the highest degree of the spiritual 
Understanding those raised to the fourth phase 

one each time — that will bring one of the periods nearest the 
length of time (three years and a half) given in a verse just 
mentioned. A passage from Luke xxi: 24, refers particularly 
to the latter days of the first epoch of Light, although it 
admits also of the interpretation given on pages 7-8. 

1 Rev. xiii: 8. 

2 Refer to page 230, and also to Rev., chapter xviii. 



288 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

from the second, at the end of the first period of 
the second epoch, are referred to, as in their final 
state, in Revelation xiv : 1-4; those raised at the 
end of the second period are mentioned in chapter 
xv : verses 2, 3 ; and those ascending to their final 
state from this phase and the second at the end of 
the third period, in chapter xix : verses 1-9. Those 
changed from the material, and raised to the fourth 
stratum of creation at the end of the third epoch 
of Light, and others belonging to the same group 
and having previously entered that phase of life 
directly after death, are spoken of as in their final 
state, in chapter vii. Among the aforesaid people, 
at each of these periods, will be those composing a 
fourfold grand Head.) 

St. John beheld the seventh phase of life, and 
also the Son of the Most High, clothed in an under- 
standing pervaded by truth : that truth is the Light 
of God. The degree of force that Jesus made 
manifest is that which can both smite and rule the 
nations, and which shall eventually obliterate (in 
the second phase of life) all remaining sin. 1 

At the beginning of the third epoch of Light, 

1 In the second phase of existence, the higher the degree of 
Spiritual thought overshadowing the minds of the wicked, the 
more intense their consciousness of and remorse for their sin. 
Hence in the symbolic words of Revelation (xix : 15), the Son 
of the Most High treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and 
wrath of God. In the nineteenth chapter the remaining verses 
after the sixteenth, refer to the end of the third epoch. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 239 

even after the second " woe ", a volume of mental 
force will proceed to this world, — ' from the seventh 
angel who has a trumpet,' — and will awaken every 
one to discern and love the spiritual Wisdom, 1 thus 
binding and casting out the "dragon". Discord 
will then reign only in the second phase of life 
until the end of the first centuiy of the epoch. 
[Rev. xx : 1-3 and 7.] At that time the volume 
of the aforesaid force will decrease, and the defiled 
mental current from the second phase of life will 
again blind, in this world, people whose minds it 
will enter. (According to this doctrine : (1) The 
number one thousand is a symbol for one hundred 
when used by St. John to denote the number of 
years in each of the two periods composing the 
third epoch. These two periods — the first, the 
universal reign of Truth and harmony in this 
world ; and the second, during which the mental 
cloud shall again exist — these two periods are rep- 
resented, in Revelation xx : 2-7, by the same sym- 
bol and without regard to the order in which they 
shall occur. (2) The Creator's design relative to 
the people born upon the planets of this solar uni- 
verse will have been fulfilled — that is, the people 
shall all have reached their final state — at the end 
of the third millenary A. D., seven thousand years 
after the fall of Adam. Tims, the second Day will 
continue during the first 333£ years of the third 
1 Kev. x: 7; and xi: 15. Refer also to page 225. 



240 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

millenary, and will be followed by the third Night, 
lasting 350 years, and then by the third epoch of 
Light. At the close of the latter period, even in 
2883, human life in this world will cease, 117 
years before the end of the millenary. As stated 
on page 199, error will exist in the second phase of 
life until after the beginning of the last century of 
the third millenary. Hence, as mentioned on page 
229, it will exist in each century of that millenary 
— although during only a part of the last one.) 

St. John perceived, in a vision, those who within 
the second century of the epoch shall be slain for 
promulgating Truth. 'They will have part in 
the first resurrection ' and, in the fourth phase of 
life, will reign with Christ until the hundred 
years shall have expired. 1 Within that period 
those who die governed by error will enter the 
second phase, but they will not be given the true 
— the spiritual — perception of Life until the end 
of that century (Rev. xx : 5). Then, all the 
people in the second phase will be awakened 
spiritually. Those in this world that are not at- 
one with God will be killed. 2 Of this number the 

1 Rev. xx : 4 and 6. The group of people mentioned in 
verse 5 are referred to as taking part in a " first " resurrection, 
so-called in distinction from the "last and general" one. 
See page 242. 

2 The people that shall have become purified from the 
material nature will be "sealed" and raised to the fourth 
stratum of creation and there united with those that shall 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 241 

'beast and the false prophet', meaning those pro- 
mulgating respectively the Gog and the Magog, 
will be overpowered by fire, as will be also all the 
people governed by the latter understanding. The 
remnant (those governed by the ' Gog ') will be 
killed by the highest degree of force, which will 
then pass through their creative channels, stopping 
organic action. Fowls of the air will feed upon 
the human flesh until they, too, shall be over- 
powered, and all conscious life will cease. 1 The 
people will enter the second phase, where ' their 

have previously, in the same epoch, entered that phase of life 
directly after death. See pages 201, 215, and 234. 

1 Kev. xix: 17-21. See also Rev. xx: 8-10. In the book of 
Revelation, description pertaining respectively to the end of 
the second and third epochs of Light alludes in some way to 
the three classes into which people shall be then divided by 
reason of the respective understandings governing them. The 
spiritual class is mentioned on pages 237-8. People governed, at 
the end of the second epoch, by the Gog and Magog respect- 
ively are spoken of as stated on pages 221-2. Those partaking 
of the Magog at the end of the third reign of Truth are 
referred to in Rev. xx: 9, as being overpowered by fire ; those 
governed by the Gog are mentioned in chapter xix: verse 21. 
In xxii : 11, St. John again alludes to the aforesaid classes, 
existing toward the end of a reign of Truth. In the said verse 
reference to the "righteous " is to the virtuous people among 
those governed by the original material understanding. In I 
Cor. chapter xi, St. Paul refers, in verses 27-29, to people 
living in the first epoch and having the spirit of antichrist ; 
in verse 30 he speaks of those that were governed by the Gog 
and were therefore not ' awake ' to comprehend the power and 
wisdom of the Lord. 
16 



242 A NEW DEPARTURE. 

books shall be opened ' ; that is, the chronicles of 
the heart shall be revealed. Finally, all the people 
shall be given perception of the infinite Wisdom 
except those governed by the Magog : they will 
partake of the second death. Defiled mental cur- 
rents will then be wholly purified. Thus " Satan " 
will be annihilated. The number of people last 
mentioned will be reanimated and awakened spirit- 
ually. Fifty-one years after the end of the epoch, 
they, together with all that shall then be in the 
second phase of life, will enter the third. Refer 
to page 200. 

In Rev. xx : 5, reference is made to another 
" first " resurrection so-called, signifying that the 
number of people there referred to as " the rest of 
the dead " will be awakened spiritually — in order 
that they shall minister unto those following — 
before " the last and general resurrection 'V after 
death, of the people overpowered in this world at 
the end of the epoch. Of the latter number, 
those governed by the Gog will be given, in the 
second phase, discernment of the infinite Wisdom 
— that is, their names shall be " written in the 
book of life " — before the time in which the rem- 
nant partake of the second death. This remnant, 
which will then include all that are not awakened 
spiritually, is referred to in Rev. xxi : 8, and xx: 
15. 

1 See heading of the 20th chapter of Rev. 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 243 

Finally, St. John again beheld the seventh 
phase of creation — the Throne, and Him who 
dwells thereon ; * from whose face [from the 
highest force when it shall pass downward over- 
whelming the grand centres,] the earth and the 
heaven shall flee away ' ; i. e., the lower phases of 
creation shall be dissolved into their original force. 

The Apostle saw * also, in a vision, the new 
heaven and earth which shall be formed in the 
same place, after the first heaven, earth, and sea, 
[signifying the three lower strata of creation] 
shall have passed away. 2 Moreover, he perceived 
the holy city, the new Jerusalem — typifying the 
Understanding of all things spiritual (then re- 
vealed to him in the fulness of its glory) ; also 
referring to the sixth phase of life. Therein are 
twelve " gates", the general degrees of perception 
in a grand prime degree. At the gates are those 
angels that belong 1 to the heads of the twelve 
groups. There are, also, three gates, 3 or grand 
prime degrees, in each race ; hence three on each 
side of the city, which " lieth foursquare ". These 
latter degrees of perception in the highest Under- 
standing were founded through the mediumship 
of ministers of the infinite Wisdom, three of 

1 Rev., chapters xxi: and xxii. 2 Refer to page 202. 

3 Reference to the "gates" alludes to the degrees of per- 
ception and also as on page 78, to the groups of angels having 
those general degrees. 



244 



A NEW DEPARTURE. 



whom are in the head of each of the four grand 
mystical Bodies upon the 4 Throne V The heavenly 
Jerusalem measures " twelve thousand furlongs ", 
having three grand prime degrees, or groups, of 
angels in each race, and each grand degree being 
represented hj the number ' one thousand '. The 
wall of the city measures a hundred and forty- 
four cubits, the measure of the Creator's design 
relative to a fourfold mystical Body there, even 
three grand prime degrees in each of the four 
races, each grand degree having twelve groups, or 
" tribes ". 

From the highest phase of life, Divine thought 
proceeds to the heavenl}^ Jerusalem and is per- 
vaded b} r the infinite Wisdom which yields its 
twelve truths each month, — one's memory being 
then refreshed by a review of the grand Concep- 
tion. To the holy city, God and Christ give light. 
Unto the Father and the Son be all honor, power 
and glory forever. 

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